OpenAI announced GPT-5 last week in "GPT-5 and the new era of work". Working with OpenAI, we rolled out GPT-5 support the day it launched, making sure you can use and build with it and integrate it into your applications immediately. We've got you covered with a dev-focused rundown: GPT-5 availability, new capabilities, and quick-start steps. An...

We've been talking a lot about the Model Context Protocol (MCP) lately, including recent blog posts and sessions at Microsoft Build. In this post, I'd like to share some top tips for how you can use MCP servers we've been building to improve your developer productivity. What's the experience like? If you've never used an MCP server, imagine cha...

Microsoft Build 2025 is just around the corner (May 19-22), and we're fired up about all the developer-focused content we've got lined up for you! Whether you're a Visual Studio power user, a VS Code fan, all about Azure, looking for the newest in .NET, or just pumped about AI in development, this year's Build is going to be amazing! The virtual...