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Jun 30, 2025
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Exploring azd extensions: Enhance your Azure developer experience

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Kristen Womack
A deep dive into the introduction of the Azure Developer CLI (azd) extensions and the azd extension framework to build extensions.
Azure SDK Blog
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Jun 30, 2025
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Agents at Work: Putting MSSQL MCP Server into Practice

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Arun Vijayraghavan
How often have you wished you could just talk to your data? Imagine extracting crucial insights, updating records, or building complex reports without wrestling with intricate query languages or relying on a dedicated developer. For many professionals, the true power of their enterprise...
Azure SQL Devs’ Corner
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Jun 30, 2025
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What's new in Azure AI Foundry | June 2025

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Nick Brady
Latest features and updates in Azure AI Foundry for June 2025, featuring major model releases, Agent Service GA, enhanced developer tools, and significant portal improvements.
Azure AI Foundry Blog
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Jun 30, 2025
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Latest NoSQL Java Ecosystem Updates: June 2024 - June 2025

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Theo van Kraay
Welcome to the latest roundup of key updates across the Azure Cosmos DB Java ecosystem! The largest external customers of Azure Cosmos DB API for NoSQL, running some of the biggest and most mission critical workloads in Azure, are primarily Java users! From powerful new AI integrations...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
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Jun 30, 2025
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2025 mid-year link clearance

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Raymond Chen
Halfway there.
The Old New Thing
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Jun 30, 2025
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Embracing the power of the empty set in API design: Requesting zero items

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Raymond Chen
It's okay to ask for nothing. You get nothing.
The Old New Thing
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Jun 27, 2025
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Announcing Model Context Protocol Support (preview) in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service

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Linda Li
Generative-AI agents only become useful when they can do things—query systems of record, trigger workflows, or look up specialized knowledge. Until now that meant hand-rolling Azure Functions, managing OpenAPI specs, or writing custom plug-ins for every backend you own.  MCP...
Azure AI Foundry Blog
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Jun 27, 2025
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Microsoft 365 Copilot APIs: Unlocking enterprise knowledge for AI with the Retrieval API — Now in Public Preview

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Zakiullah Khan
Read how the Retrieval API gives developers a secure, compliant and scalable way to integrate enterprise content into their AI workflows.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
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Jun 27, 2025
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Why do I get errors or warnings about some weird symbol called ?main@@YAHP$01E$AAV?$Array@PE$AAVString@Platform..., part 3

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Raymond Chen
Forcing main to be found in the place we want.
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