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Give your Foundry Agent Custom Tools with MCP Servers on Azure Functions
Learn how to connect your MCP server hosted on Azure Functions to Microsoft Foundry agents. This post covers authentication options and setup steps to give your AI agent access to custom MCP tools.
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Introducing GitHub Copilot Modernization and diving into the assessment report as part of cloud modernization process
Read moreClick to read more about this postGitHub Copilot for Eclipse Is Going Open Source
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Copilot for Eclipse plugin is going open source under the MIT license and will be hosted on GitHub under the microsoft organization in the coming weeks.
By open-sourcing the project, we’re inviting the community to contribute,...
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Apr 16, 2026
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What's New in Microsoft Foundry Fine-Tuning | April 2026
April 2026 brings three major Reinforcement Fine-Tuning updates: Global Training for o4-mini with lower per-token rates across 12+ regions, new GPT-4.1 model graders for richer reward signals, and a comprehensive RFT best practices guide to help you ship specialized models faster.
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Apr 16, 2026
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Free Your Terminal with Detached Mode in Aspire 13.2
Aspire 13.2 brings detached mode to the CLI. Run your AppHost in the background, free your terminal, and let coding agents start, inspect, and manage your app without blocking.
Aspire Blog
Apr 16, 2026
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From AI to .NET: 20 VS Live! Las Vegas Sessions You Can Watch Now
In March 2026, developers came together at VS Live! Las Vegas for a full week of technical learning, hands-on exploration, and a lot of great conversations about where software development is headed next. From AI-assisted development to modern .NET, cloud-native apps, and developer...
Visual Studio Blog
Apr 16, 2026
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What's up with window message 0x0091? We're getting it with unexpected parameters
Trespassing on system messages.
The Old New Thing
Apr 15, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.116
Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.116
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VS Code Blog
Apr 15, 2026
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Azure MCP tools now ship built into Visual Studio 2022 — no extension required
Azure MCP tools now ship built into Visual Studio 2022 — no extension required
Azure MCP tools are now built into Visual Studio 2022 as part of the Azure development workload — no separate extension to find, install, or update. You can enable over 230 tools across 45 Azure services...
Visual Studio Blog
Apr 15, 2026
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Pin Clustering in .NET MAUI Maps
.NET MAUI 11 adds pin clustering to the Map control, automatically grouping nearby pins into cluster markers. Learn how to enable clustering, create separate clustering groups, and handle cluster taps on Android and iOS.
.NET Blog
Apr 15, 2026
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Stop Hunting Bugs: Meet the New Visual Studio Debugger Agent Workflow
We’ve all been there: a bug report lands in your inbox with a title like "App crashes sometimes" and zero reproduction steps. Your morning, which was supposed to be spent building new features, is now a forensic investigation. You’re setting scattershot breakpoints, staring at...
Visual Studio Blog
Apr 15, 2026
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One-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...
Azure DevOps Blog