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Get started with GitHub Copilot CLI: A free, hands-on course
Learn GitHub Copilot CLI with this free, 8-chapter hands-on course. Review code, generate tests, debug issues, and build custom agents and skills - all from your terminal. No AI experience needed. Works with GitHub Copilot Free. Clone the repo or open in Codespaces to get started.
Read moreClick to read more about this postPlatform Engineering for the Agentic AI era
For the last decade, platform engineering has relied on explicit API interaction layers: CLIs, SDKs, pipelines, wrappers, and UI workflows that translate human intent into machine‑safe API calls. AI agents are now short‑circuiting much of that stack. By combining natural language...
Read moreClick to read more about this postVisual Studio at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026
Join us at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 for a deep dive into Visual Studio, GitHub Copilot, PowerToys, and the Windows tools that speed up your daily dev workflow. We'll show how these tools work together to boost productivity and cut friction across your entire inner loop.
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Feb 26, 2026
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D3D12 Shader Execution Reordering
Now officially released, Shader Execution Reordering (SER) is an addition to DirectX Raytracing that enables application shader code inform hardware how to find coherency across rays so they can be sorted to execute better in parallel. SER support is a required feature in Shader...
DirectX Developer Blog
Feb 26, 2026
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D3D12 Opacity Micromaps
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DirectX Raytracing (DXR) now supports Opacity Micromaps (OMMs), enabling hardware to handle alpha tested geometry more efficiently than relying only on costly AnyHit shader invocations.
At GDC 2025 DXR 1.2 was announced including OMMs, and you can see it discussed in this: GDC...
DirectX Developer Blog
Feb 26, 2026
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Azure SDK Release (February 2026)
Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you'll find this month's highlights and release notes.
Azure SDK Blog
Feb 26, 2026
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Intercepting messages inside IsDialogMessage, installing the message filter
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IsDialogMessage extension point.The Old New Thing
Feb 26, 2026
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Building Long-Distance Next Edit Suggestions
Learn how we extended next edit suggestions to work across your entire file, reducing friction and improving productivity in GitHub Copilot.
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VS Code Blog
Feb 26, 2026
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Building a Secure MCP Server with OAuth 2.1 and Azure AD: Lessons from the Field
How we built a production-ready MCP server with OAuth 2.1 authentication and On-Behalf-Of flow for Microsoft Graph, navigating a rapidly evolving specification.
ISE Developer Blog
Feb 25, 2026
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The Polyglot Tax
Part 1 of 4 - The Multimodal Database Series
This is a four-part series about what happens when a single database engine handles relational, document, graph, vector, and analytical workloads natively - and what you stop paying for when it does.
You spin up a database, point an agent...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Feb 25, 2026
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MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Query Profiler, ADS Migration Toolkit & More
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Tauseef,
Yo-Lei
The MSSQL Extension for VS Code continues to evolve, delivering features that make SQL development more integrated, more powerful, and more developer-friendly. In version v1.40.0, we're introducing the ADS Migration Toolkit, Basic Database Management, Flat File Import, Database Backup...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Feb 25, 2026
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Azure Developer CLI (azd) - February 2026: JMESPath Queries & Deployment Slots
This post announces the February 2026 release of the Azure Developer CLI (`azd`).
Azure SDK Blog