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Microsoft Build 2026 recap: vision, launches, and top sessions
Catch up on Microsoft Build 2026 with the vision lead-off, top developer announcements, and must-watch sessions across the Microsoft developer ecosystem.
Read moreClick to read more about this post.NET at Microsoft Build 2026: Must watch sessions
Catch up on all the .NET sessions from Microsoft Build 2026 covering .NET 11, union types in C#, AI building blocks, the agentic web, .NET MAUI, and more!
Read moreClick to read more about this postCopilot Autofix for GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
Over the last few years, we've encouraged customers to move their repositories from Azure Repos to GitHub, where the newest AI-powered and agentic development experiences land first.
Migrating isn't equally simple for everyone. A move to GitHub can range from straightforward to a...
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Jun 16, 2026
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Third Rule of MSIX
MSIX has several core principles underlying its design and implementation. Engineers half-jokingly call these The Rules of MSIX. The Third Rule of MSIX is arguably the most important and certainly the most foundational:
Package identity is unique across space and...
Inside MSIX
Jun 16, 2026
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Competing against yourself
You shipped a new CLI: better developer experience, modern architecture, and optimized for agents. You deprecated the old one, updated the docs, and blogged about it. Developers are migrating. Then someone asks an AI coding agent to scaffold a project, and the agent... uses the old...
Microsoft for Developers
Jun 16, 2026
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Announcing General Availability of the Azure Cosmos DB Built-in Connector for Logic Apps Standard
Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Cosmos DB built-in connector for Azure Logic Apps Standard. This connector gives you a native, high-performance way to integrate Azure Cosmos DB into your Standard logic app workflows, with better throughput, lower...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Jun 15, 2026
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GitHub Copilot for JetBrains is moving to Copilot CLI as the default agent harness
Copilot CLI is becoming the default agent harness in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains, and our local harness will be deprecated.
This change provides greater consistency across all GitHub Copilot surfaces and is an important step toward faster feature parity and higher-quality results in...
Microsoft for Java Developers
Jun 15, 2026
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Make Visual Studio look the way you want
Themes are personal. Some of us live in dark mode, some swear by high contrast, and some of us have very strong opinions about that one shade of blue from years ago. The new themes in Visual Studio 2026 are built on Fluent, which gives us a much more consistent and accessible foundation,...
Visual Studio Blog
Jun 15, 2026
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The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad that they fixed it during emulation
Offensive content in the eyes of a software engineer.
The Old New Thing
Jun 12, 2026
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GitHub Copilot modernization for C++ is out of preview
GitHub Copilot modernization for C++ is out of preview as of Visual Studio 2026, helping you upgrade your MSVC Build Tools with an AI-guided workflow.
C++ Team Blog
Jun 12, 2026
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How can I schedule work on a thread pool with low latency?
The thread pool is designed for throughput, not latency.
The Old New Thing
Jun 12, 2026
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Orchestration Patterns for Multi-Agent Systems: Performance and Trade-offs
Real-world lessons from evolving a production chatbot into a coordinator-based multi-agent architecture, including performance trade-offs for enterprise-scale agent reuse.
ISE Developer Blog