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.NET STS releases will be supported for 24 months

We’re excited to share that the Azure Databases extension for Visual Studio Code is now officially rebranded as the Azure Cosmos DB extension!  🎯 Why the Change? This rebranding is part of our effort to provide dedicated, streamlined tooling for each Azure...

Overview  We are excited to announce Computer Use—are now available in preview in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service. It brings feature parity with the Azure OpenAI Responses API, but with the added advantage of seamless integration into the Foundry agent runtime and enterprise security....

This article presents an AI-powered approach to automating SQL Server code analysis and refactoring. The system intelligently identifies inefficiencies and common T-SQL anti-patterns, applying best practices through a set of formalized coding rules, using prompt-driven instructions....

Reducing the level of alarm.

Several months ago, GitHub introduced the public preview of its Copilot coding agent, a powerful new capability that allows you to assign GitHub Issues directly to Copilot. From there, the agent works independently in the background, much like a human developer, to complete the task....

Developers are increasingly relying on AI agents to both build new software as well as extend capabilities of existing projects that they support. One challenge with AI-based systems, however, is that to produce the right output you need to first establish really good context. If you...

The September 2025 release includes pipenv support in the Python Environment Extension, a new experimental hover feature with GitHub Copilot and Pylance, and more!

Learn how Application Insights Code Optimizations helps .NET developers identify performance bottlenecks and get AI-powered recommendations through GitHub Copilot integration.