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TFVC Remove Existing Obsolete Policies ASAP
In April 2025, we announced the deprecation schedule for legacy TFVC check-in policies. This change was required due to limitations in how those policies were previously implemented and stored. The old policies have been marked as obsolete, and you can replace them by selecting the...
Read moreClick to read more about this postCustom Agents in Visual Studio: Built in and Build-Your-Own agents
Agents in Visual Studio now go beyond a single general-purpose assistant. We're shipping a set of curated preset agents that tap into deep IDE capabilities; debugging, profiling, testing alongside a framework for building your own custom agents tailored to how your team works.
Built in...
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Oct 23, 2025
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Unlocking Enterprise AI Complexity: Multi-Agent Orchestration with the Microsoft Agent Framework
The Architectural Imperative: Why Multi-Agent Orchestration is Essential
In modern enterprise AI systems, the scope and complexity of real-world business challenges quickly exceed the capabilities of a single, monolithic AI Agent. Facing tasks like end-to-end customer journey management,...
Semantic Kernel
Oct 23, 2025
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Integration Testing with Testcontainers
How to leverage Testcontainers for integration testing
ISE Developer Blog
Oct 22, 2025
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Bringing Context to Copilot: Azure Cosmos DB Best Practices, Right in Your VS Code Workspace
Developers love GitHub Copilot for its instant, intelligent code suggestions. But what if those suggestions could also reflect your specific database and workload patterns? That’s now possible with a new feature in Azure Cosmos DB for VS Code.
Starting today, when you connect to...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Oct 22, 2025
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Introducing Planning in Visual Studio (Public Preview)
Quick prompts are great for small fixes, but they fall short on big projects. You end up rewriting instructions, tweaking them constantly, and hoping the model stays on track. It gives Copilot a visible, structured path to follow, one that updates as it works and keeps you in control at...
Visual Studio Blog
Oct 22, 2025
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Build an AI Agentic RAG search application with React, SQL Azure and Azure Static Web Apps
Introduction
Leveraging OpenAI for semantic searches on structured databases like Azure SQL enhances search accuracy and context-awareness, providing more relevant and insightful results.
This example showcases the use of Azure SQL for storing and searching data with AI. By implementing...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Oct 22, 2025
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What makes cheap_steady_clock faster than std::chrono::high_resolution_clock ?
It's quite a bit faster, though maybe you don't care.
The Old New Thing
Oct 22, 2025
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Expanding Model Choice in VS Code with Bring Your Own Key
Learn how the new Language Model Chat Provider API in VS Code is enabling more model choice and extensibility for chat experiences via the Bring Your Own Key experience.
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VS Code Blog