Microsoft
Developer Blogs
Get the latest information, insights, and news from Microsoft.
Highlights
Securing Azure apps with Aspire enterprise networking
Network security has a funny way of showing up late.
You start with a web app, an API, storage, and Key Vault. The app works. The demo works. Everyone is happy. Then the production checklist shows up:
Can storage and secrets be taken off the public internet?
Can this app run inside our...
Read moreClick to read more about this postVSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026: Send Your Team Home With Working Code
If you lead a development team, you already know the pattern. You approve the travel, your developers attend a great conference, they come back energized, and then the work resumes exactly as it was. The ideas don't survive contact with the backlog.
This July at VSLive! @ Microsoft...
Read moreClick to read more about this postMicrosoft SQL Security Across the MAESTRO Stack: Building Secure Agentic AI with Defense-in-Depth
Artificial Intelligence is evolving rapidly. What began as simple prompt-and-response systems is now transforming into fully autonomous, agentic AI architectures capable of reasoning, orchestrating tools, interacting with enterprise data, and invoking external systems dynamically. While...
Read moreClick to read more about this postLatest posts
Feb 4, 2026
Post comments count8
Post likes count14
WinGet Configuration: Set up your dev machine in one command
I've set up a lot of dev machines in my life. Traditionally, this takes a lot of time to get everything just right, but now there's a faster way with WinGet Configuration files. Let me show you how to go from a fresh Windows install to a fully configured dev environment with a single...
Microsoft for Developers
Feb 4, 2026
Post comments count3
Post likes count2
How can I prevent the user from changing the widths of ListView columns?
You can ask the header to be non-resizing.
The Old New Thing
Feb 3, 2026
Post comments count2
Post likes count1
Deprecation notice: Teams Live Events meeting creation via Microsoft Graph
Creating Teams Live Events via the Microsoft Graph isBroadcast API is deprecated. We encourage developers to use Virtual Event APIs instead.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
Feb 3, 2026
Post comments count2
Post likes count0
Part 2: Building a Python CRUD API with Azure Functions and Azure Cosmos DB
Series: Building Serverless Applications with Azure Functions and Azure Cosmos DB
In the first post of this series, we focused on establishing the fundamentals of serverless architecture by building and deploying a simple HTTP API using Azure Functions and FastAPI. The post centred on...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Feb 3, 2026
Post comments count7
Post likes count4
Performance improvements to MEF-based editor productivity extensions
Tina,
Amadeus
If you use editor productivity extensions for Visual Studio 2026, there's good news—they can now load faster! Extension developers with existing MEF-based editor productivity extensions should read this blog to learn about recent changes and how they might be affected.
We...
Visual Studio Blog
Feb 3, 2026
Post comments count0
Post likes count8
Some small stories about the giant satellite dish antenna that was behind Microsoft Building 11
A little trivia.
The Old New Thing