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Upgrading to Microsoft Agent Framework in Your .NET AI Chat App

Step-by-step review on how to upgrade your .NET AI chat app to Microsoft Agent Framework for better architecture, tool integration, and intelligent reasoning.
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Oct 30, 2025
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Upgrading C++ Projects to Visual Studio 2026

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Augustin Popa
With Visual Studio 2026 version 18.0 getting closer to General Availability (GA), we want to share with you how you can upgrade your projects from your current versions of Visual Studio and the Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools to the latest versions. The new IDE ships with the v145...
C++ Team Blog
Failures Happen in Cloud, but How Azure Cosmos DB Keeps Your App Online
Oct 30, 2025
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Failures Happen in Cloud, but how Azure Cosmos DB keeps your Applications Online

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Hari Sudan S
The only thing that’s constant in distributed systems is failures. No cloud platform is immune to failures — from regional outages and transient network blips to human errors or hardware faults. What defines resiliency & reliability isn’t the absence of failure, but how systems...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
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Oct 30, 2025
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Introducing the azd extension to configure GitHub Copilot coding agent integration with Azure

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Kristen Womack
This post shares how to set up the GitHub Copilot coding agent integration with Azure resources and services by using the Azure Developer CLI (`azd`) extension.
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Oct 30, 2025
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Trying to build a XAML tree in code throws a "No installed components were detected" exception

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Raymond Chen
An unfortunate error code collision, but the explanatory text leads the way.
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Oct 30, 2025
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SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – October 2025

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Vesa Juvonen
SPFx is powering the future of Microsoft 365. From AI-driven portals to seamless integrations across SharePoint, Teams and Viva, SPFx is driving innovation at scale. This blog series kicks off our journey into the next evolution—transparent, community-driven, and built for the AI era. Let’s shape what’s next, together.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
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Oct 30, 2025
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Visual Studio October Update – new models, memories, planning, and more

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Jessie Houghton
The October 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) is now available. In this month, we are bringing you improvements to model choices, agentic flows, and chat thread management.    New Models  We now have Claude Sonnet 4.5  and Claude Haiku 4.5 available in the...
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Oct 30, 2025
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Dev Proxy v1.3 with exporting to HAR, LLM usage tracking, and enhanced permissions analysis

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Introducing Dev Proxy v1.3 with new plugins for inspecting and debugging API requests, along with enhanced permissions analysis and improved OpenAPI spec generation for complex testing scenarios.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
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Oct 29, 2025
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New GitHub Copilot capabilities for C++ developers: Upgrade MSVC, improve build performance, and refactor C++ code

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Erika Sweet
Yesterday at GitHub Universe, GitHub announced support for custom agents. Custom agents are specialized configurations with custom prompts and context that focus Copilot on specific development tasks. On the C++ team, we have a similar goal: Provide differentiated capabilities that...
C++ Team Blog
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Oct 29, 2025
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Java OpenJDK October 2025 Patch & Security Update

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Derek Keeler
Hello Java customers! We are happy to announce the latest July 2025 patch & security update release for the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK. Download and install the binaries today. OpenJDK 25.0.1 OpenJDK 21.0.9 OpenJDK 17.0.17 OpenJDK 11.0.29 Check our release notes...
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