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Awesome GitHub Copilot just got a website, and a learning hub, and plugins!
Back in July, we launched the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo with a simple goal: give the community a place to share custom instructions, prompts, and chat modes to customize the AI responses from GitHub Copilot. We were hoping for maybe one community contribution per...
Read moreClick to read more about this postWhen Infrastructure Scales But Understanding Doesn't
We all know this, even if we don't like to admit it: modern infrastructure can scale infinitely, but human understanding doesn't.
We've all seen it happen - organizations going from managing dozens of servers to thousands of containers, from deploying weekly to deploying hundreds of...
Read moreClick to read more about this postAuthentication Tokens Are Not a Data Contract
Authentication tokens exist to answer one question: is this caller authorized to do this?
They are not intended to be a stable data interface, a schema you can depend on, or an input into application logic.
If your application decodes tokens and reads claims from them, this is an...
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Mar 18, 2026
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Handling Long-Running Operations with Background Responses
Sergey,
Eduard
Handling Long-Running Operations with Background Responses
AI agents powered by reasoning models can take minutes to work through complex problems — deep research, multi-step analysis, lengthy content generation. In a traditional request-response pattern, that means your client sits...
Microsoft Agent Framework
Mar 18, 2026
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MSSQL Extension for VS Code: SQL Notebooks, AI-Powered Schema Design, Data API builder & More
Yo-Lei,
Tauseef,
Carlos
The MSSQL extension for VS Code v1.41 continues to evolve, delivering features that make SQL development more integrated, more powerful, and more developer-friendly. In this release, we're introducing the Public Preview of Schema Designer with GitHub Copilot, Data API builder, and SQL...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Mar 18, 2026
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Changes to attachment IDs for inline images in Outlook add-ins
Read how inline image attachments are handled when they’re programmatically added to a mail item's signature or body in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
Mar 18, 2026
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Windows stack limit checking retrospective: Alpha AXP
Double the size, double the fun.
The Old New Thing
Mar 17, 2026
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From 150 Unread to Zero Stress: Automating Inbox Triage with MCP and GitHub Copilot
Taming the Noisy Inbox: How I Used MCP to Automate Email and Teams Triage
How the Model Context Protocol (MCP) turns your AI coding assistant into a workplace productivity engine — connecting Microsoft 365 data to your terminal workflow.
The Problem We All Share
If you work...
All things Azure
Mar 17, 2026
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Azure Skills Plugin - Let's Get Started!
Part 2 of the Azure Skills Plugin series
Previously: Announcing the Azure Skills Plugin
This post is all about getting you up and running. I won't go deep on capabilities, architecture or anything like that here - that's coming in future posts in this series. The goal is to...
All things Azure
Mar 17, 2026
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PowerToys 0.98 is here: new Keyboard Manager UX, the Command Palette Dock and better CursorWrap!
We're back with a fresh PowerToys release – PowerToys 0.98! This month introduces the new Command Palette Dock, along with a refreshed Keyboard Manager experience and many other improvements across the utilities. You can grab the update by checking for updates in PowerToys or by...
Windows Command Line
Mar 17, 2026
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RT.Assistant: A Multi-Agent Voice Bot Using .NET and OpenAI
Guest blog post on building a real time assistant using OpenAI Realtime API using .NET, F#, Microsoft.Extensions.AI and .NET MAUI.
.NET Blog
Mar 17, 2026
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Introducing the Azure Cosmos DB Plugin for Cursor
We're excited to announce the Cursor plugin for Azure Cosmos DB bringing AI-powered database expertise, best practices guidance, and live database connectivity directly into your coding workflow.
Whether you're designing a new data model, optimizing queries, or building a RAG...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog