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Today we are proud to announce the availability of TypeScript 7, a 10x faster native port of TypeScript! Since its early days, TypeScript has promised to deliver on JavaScript that scales. By bringing strong type-checking and rich tooling to the world of JavaScript, TypeScript made it...

Most "AI agent" demos forget everything the moment the process exits. That's fine for a toy project, but useless for anything real. An agent that helps you write, triage, or support needs two things a language model alone can't give it: durable state and the ability to recall the right...

A two-in-one package.

This is the seventh article in a series about Agent Experience (AX): the practice of making AI coding agents work correctly with your technology. The series covers what you can and can't control in the agent stack, how to measure whether your extensions are helping or hurting, and how to...

Python's agent-framework-orchestrations package is now 1.0.0. That puts Microsoft Agent Framework's orchestration layer at 1.0 across Python and .NET. Sequential, concurrent, group chat, handoff, and magentic orchestration are now stable in both SDKs. You can pick the coordination...

Applications are not packages. Let me repeat. Applications are not packages. This is a common misconception due to the (too) often blurring of concepts and terminology. Packages and applications are different and distinct things, so it's important to understand what those words mean...

It used some heuristics.

There's advice making the rounds: replace your CLI args with a single --json payload so agents can use your tool more effectively. The thinking being, that agents already think in structured formats, and nested data maps cleanly to JSON. Flat args on the other hand, force awkward...

You can now give your .NET agents reusable packages of domain expertise - instructions, reference documents, and scripts they load only when a task needs them - through a stable, production-ready API. Agent Skills for .NET in Microsoft Agent Framework has moved out of experimental preview...

Claude is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry. Here's everything else that shipped between Build 2026 and the end of June — autopilot agents, expanded Toolboxes and Routines, Agent Optimizer's private preview, and more.

Design patterns are where good data modeling lives or dies. In a NoSQL database like Azure Cosmos DB, the difference between a schema that scales to millions of operations per second and one that fights you at every turn usually comes down to a handful of well‑understood patterns: how...

You can't change your mind, but you can do it a different way.

Once you create a container, its partition key is fixed at creation, and you can’t change it in place. However, if your original key starts causing problems like cross-partition queries or hot partitions, you need to consider your options for changing it. This post explains the...

A new model drops with lower per-token pricing and better benchmarks. You switch. A week later someone asks why the agent is burning 12x more tokens on the same task while producing worse output. We ran 150 agent tasks across 15 scenarios on two models, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Claude...

Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you'll find this month's highlights and release notes.

Contextual clues.

When distributing LLM calls across PySpark workers via mapInPandas, MLflow autolog silently fails. Here is how to fix it.

The featured talks for Pure Virtual C++ 2026 are here! Join us on July 21 for a free, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community.