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Choosing the Right Azure Hosting Model for AI Agents: A Deep Dive into Foundry Hosted Agents
AI agents are quickly moving from experiments to production‑critical components of modern applications. But while many teams know how to build agents, far fewer are confident they’re hosting them on the right foundation.
Most organizations start by deploying agents the same way...
Read moreClick to read more about this postOne-click security scanning and org-wide alert triage come to Advanced Security
We're shipping two major capabilities that change how security teams enable and act on application security in Azure DevOps: CodeQL default setup makes it possible to enable code scanning across your organization without configuring a single pipeline, and a new combined alerts experience...
Read moreClick to read more about this postDevOps Playbook for the Agentic Era
Practices, Principles, and Strategic Direction
Software delivery has entered a new phase. AI agents are no longer confined to autocomplete suggestions in the editor. They are opening pull requests, generating code across multiple files, proposing infrastructure changes, responding to...
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Apr 10, 2026
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PowerShell MSI package deprecation and preview updates
This post announces the deprecation of MSI packaging beginning with PowerShell 7.7.
PowerShell Team
Apr 10, 2026
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Putting Agentic Platform Engineering to the test
Arnaud,
davidwright,
Suzanne
In Part 1 of this blog series set the stage for why platform engineering is being reshaped by agentic AI. (read it here)
Basically we outline how instead of humans translating intent through layers of CLIs, SDKs, and bespoke workflows, capable agents can interpret natural-language...
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Apr 9, 2026
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C++23 Support in MSVC Build Tools 14.51
We’re pleased to provide an update on C++23 support in the Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools. This blog post will cover the feature additions in MSVC Build Tools version 14.51, including C++23 language features, libraries, and ISO C++ Core Working Group (CWG) and Library Working Group...
C++ Team Blog
Apr 9, 2026
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What's new in Microsoft Foundry | March 2026
March ships Foundry Agent Service GA with private networking, GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 Mini, Priority Processing, Phi-4 Reasoning Vision, SDK 2.0 GA across Python, JS/TS, Java, and .NET, Fireworks AI and NVIDIA Nemotron models, and third-party guardrails from Palo Alto and Zenity.
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Apr 9, 2026
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Foundry Local is now Generally Available
Ship local AI to millions of devices - fast, private on-device inference with no per-token costs.
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Apr 9, 2026
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Running Multiple Instances of an Aspire AppHost Without Port Conflicts
Aspire 13.2 introduces isolated mode, letting you run multiple instances of the same AppHost in parallel without port conflicts. Learn how the --isolated flag solves development and testing workflows.
Aspire Blog
Apr 9, 2026
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How do you add or remove a handle from an active WaitForMultipleObjects?
You can't, but you can cooperate with the other thread.
The Old New Thing
Apr 8, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.115
Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.115
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VS Code Blog
Apr 8, 2026
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Go 1.26.2-1 and 1.25.9-1 Microsoft builds now available
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download.
Microsoft for Go Developers