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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 15, 2026
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Choosing the Right Azure Hosting Option for Your AI Agents
A comprehensive guide to hosting AI agents on Azure, with a deep dive into Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents
As AI agents become the backbone of intelligent applications, developers face a critical decision: where and how to host these agents at scale. Azure provides multiple hosting...
All things Azure
Apr 15, 2026
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DevOps 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...
All things Azure
Apr 14, 2026
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.NET and .NET Framework April 2026 servicing releases updates
Rahul,
Tara
A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for April 2026.
.NET Blog
Apr 14, 2026
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.NET 11 Preview 3 is now available!
Find out about the new features in .NET 11 Preview 3 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, C#, Entity Framework Core, container images, and more!
.NET Blog
Apr 14, 2026
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Stop juggling package managers—just run `azd update`
Update the Azure Developer CLI with a single command on any platform and switch release channels.
Azure SDK Blog
Apr 14, 2026
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April Patches for Azure DevOps Server
We are releasing patches for our self‑hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly recommend that all customers remain on the latest, most secure version to ensure optimal protection and reliability. The latest release of Azure DevOps Server is available from the download...
Azure DevOps Blog
Apr 14, 2026
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Take your PostgreSQL-backed apps to the next level
Ismael,
Pooja
PostgreSQL is a powerful and hugely popular database engine, and it really comes alive across Microsoft developer platforms. You can build with PostgreSQL across Azure offerings, develop productively in Visual Studio Code with strong extensions and tooling, and connect your data to...
Microsoft for Developers
Apr 14, 2026
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New Aspire database integrations
Aspire 13.2 brings MongoDB Entity Framework Core and Azure Data Lake Storage integrations, plus quality-of-life improvements to existing database clients.
Aspire Blog
Apr 14, 2026
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MSVC Build Tools Version 14.51 Release Candidate Now Available
Try out the final preview of MSVC Build Tools v14.51
C++ Team Blog