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Aspire Docs in Your Terminal (and Your AI's Brain)

Aspire 13.2 ships aspire docs, a CLI for browsing, searching, and reading official aspire.dev docs from your terminal, with the same source of truth available to AI skills and automation.
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Improving the Markdown Editor for Work Items

We introduced the Markdown editor in July 2025 to bring Markdown support to large text fields in work items. Since then, we’ve received valuable customer feedback highlighting challenges with the editing experience, particularly when switching in and out of edit mode. Many users found...
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MCP as Easy as 1-2-3: Introducing the Fluent API for MCP Apps

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Lilian Kasem (she/her)
Build MCP tools with rich UI experiences using the new Fluent API for MCP Apps in the .NET isolated worker. Configure views, permissions, and security policies with just a few lines of code.
Azure SDK Blog
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Apr 7, 2026
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MCP Apps now available in Copilot chat

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Deepak Pratinidhi
Agents bring rich, app powered UI experiences directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot chat, via MCP Apps or the OpenAI Apps SDK. Read about what customers and partners are building.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
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Apr 7, 2026
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Your Migration's Source of Truth: The Modernization Assessment

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Jeffrey Fritz
Introducing GitHub Copilot Modernization and diving into the assessment report as part of cloud modernization process
.NET Blog
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Apr 7, 2026
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Agentic development aspirations: build, run, observe — without more Markdown

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Maddy Montaquila
AI agents can write code but struggle to run and test it. Aspire gives your agent a codified app model to build, run, and observe your whole stack.
Aspire Blog
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Apr 7, 2026
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ASP.NET Core 2.3 end of support announcement

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Daniel Roth
ASP.NET Core 2.3 will reach end of support on April 7, 2027. Learn what this means for your applications and how to upgrade to a modern supported version of .NET.
.NET Blog
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Apr 7, 2026
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Scalable AI with Azure Cosmos DB: Tredence Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) | March 2026

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Manish Sharma
Azure Cosmos DB enables scalable AI-driven document processing, addressing one of the biggest barriers to operational scale in today’s enterprise AI landscape. Organizations continue to manage massive volumes of structured and unstructured content—contracts, regulatory filings,...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
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Apr 7, 2026
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Write SQL Your Way: Dual Parameter Style Benefits in mssql-python

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Jahnvi Thakkar
Reviewed by: Sumit Sarabhai If you've been writing SQL in Python, you already know the debate: positional parameters (?) or named parameters (%(name)s)? Some developers swear by the conciseness of positional. Others prefer the clarity of named. With mssql-python, you no longer...
Microsoft for Python Developers Blog
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Apr 7, 2026
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Take full control of your floating windows in Visual Studio

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Mads Kristensen
Make Visual Studio floating windows work perfectly with PowerToys FancyZones. Flip one option to get independent windows, better snapping, and less friction.
Visual Studio Blog
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Apr 7, 2026
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Were there any Windows 3.1 programs that were so incompatible with Windows 95 that there was no point trying to patch them?

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Raymond Chen
The permanently ineligible list.
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Apr 6, 2026
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Agent Academy Spring Drop: Special Ops, Cowork Collective, and a Whole New Look

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April Dunnam
We've shipped a big round of updates to Agent Academy. Two new sections, a completely redone site experience, and more missions on the way. Here's what's changed. Quick recap for anyone new Agent Academy is a free, open-source curriculum for learning how to build agents with Microsoft...
Power Platform Developer Blog
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Apr 6, 2026
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Announcing the end of support for Node.js 20.x in the Azure SDK for JavaScript

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Minh-Anh Phan
After July 9, 2026, the Azure SDK for JavaScript will no longer support Node.js 20.x. Upgrade to an Active Node.js Long Term Support (LTS) version to stay secure and up-to-date.
Azure SDK Blog
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Apr 6, 2026
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MCP Apps on Azure Functions: Quickstart with TypeScript

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Swapnil Nagar
Learn how to build and deploy MCP (Model Context Protocol) apps on Azure Functions using TypeScript. This guide covers MCP tools, resources, local development, and serverless deployment with a practical weather app example.
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Apr 6, 2026
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Learning to read C++ compiler errors: Illegal use of -> when there is no -> in sight

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Raymond Chen
If the compiler is complaining about things you didn't write, find out who wrote them.
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Apr 3, 2026
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Microsoft Agent Framework Version 1.0

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Shawn Henry
Today, we're thrilled to announce that Microsoft Agent Framework has reached version 1.0 for both .NET and Python. This is the production-ready release: stable APIs, and a commitment to long-term support. Whether you're building a single assistant or orchestrating a fleet of specialized...
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Apr 3, 2026
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How can I use Read­Directory­ChangesW to know when someone is copying a file out of the directory?

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Raymond Chen
File copying is not a fundamental operation, nor is it even detectable at the file system layer.
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Apr 3, 2026
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🚀React Native Windows v0.82 is here!!

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React Native Windows v0.82 is here, marking a major milestone: the legacy Paper architecture has been fully removed. All applications now run exclusively on the New Architecture (Fabric), and this release also unlocks XAML controls for community modules — so Windows apps can seamlessly...
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Apr 2, 2026
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Explore union types in C# 15

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Bill Wagner
C# 15 introduces union types — declare a closed set of case types with implicit conversions and exhaustive pattern matching. Try unions in preview today and see the broader exhaustiveness roadmap.
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Apr 2, 2026
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Aspire Docs in Your Terminal (and Your AI's Brain)

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David Pine
Aspire 13.2 ships aspire docs, a CLI for browsing, searching, and reading official aspire.dev docs from your terminal, with the same source of truth available to AI skills and automation.
Aspire Blog