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Make Visual Studio look the way you want

Themes are personal. Some of us live in dark mode, some swear by high contrast, and some of us have very strong opinions about that one shade of blue from years ago. The new themes in Visual Studio 2026 are built on Fluent, which gives us a much more consistent and accessible foundation,...
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Jun 22, 2026
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Azure SDK Release (May 2026)

Justin Bettencourt
Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you'll find this month's highlights and release notes.
Azure SDK Blog
Jun 22, 2026
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Meet your agent harness and claw

Wes Steyn
Part 1 of Build your own claw and agent harness with Microsoft Agent Framework. In the overview we said a "claw" is really just an agent harness: a loop around a model, wired up with tools, planning, memory, and more. In this first post we stand up that loop and give our personal...
Microsoft Agent Framework
Jun 22, 2026
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Build your own claw and agent harness with Microsoft Agent Framework

Wes Steyn
What does it take to build your own "claw" - a capable, CLI-style agent that can plan, use tools, remember things, and safely act on your behalf? Coding agents and assistants like these can feel like magic, but underneath they are an agent harness: a loop around a language model wired up...
Microsoft Agent Framework
Jun 22, 2026
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Models don't have preferences, they have context

Waldek Mastykarz
You open a fresh chat, type "What framework should I use for a web app?", and the model says "React." You screenshot it, share it, and write "Claude prefers React." It gets engagement. People nod along. A few reply with their own results. And now we have a consensus: Claude prefers React....
Microsoft for Developers
Jun 22, 2026
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In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words

Raymond Chen
Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors.
The Old New Thing
Jun 22, 2026
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How to Use Deep Agents with Azure Cosmos DB – Plan, act, and verify against operational data

Abhishek Gupta
Deep Agents is an agent harness built on LangGraph, for agents that need to work through a task over many steps instead of a single LLM call. The agent runs tools, looks at the results, and uses that to pick the next one, keeping a todo list as it goes. On top of that loop the harness...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Jun 22, 2026
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Retirement of Azure DevOps issuer in Workload identity federation service connections

Eric van Wijk
We are announcing the deprecation of the Azure DevOps issuer in workload identity federation (WIF) service connections, with planned retirement on July 1, 2027. The Azure DevOps issuer uses the https://vstoken.dev.azure.com prefix in federated credentials. This change is part of...
Azure DevOps Blog
Jun 21, 2026
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Copilot 在 JetBrains IDE:功能更新与 Claude 作为 Agent 提供方预览

Jialuo Gan
本次更新为 GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs 带来了对来自 GitHub 的组织和企业级 agent 的支持,让你可以在 Copilot CLI 会话中排队和引导消息,引入了全新的 agent 调试日志摘要视图,并将 Claude 作为 agent...
Java Blog in Chinese
Jun 19, 2026
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What does it mean when the bottom bit of my HMODULE is set?

Raymond Chen
A special kind of HMODULE.
The Old New Thing
Jun 19, 2026
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Separating Deterministic Extraction from AI Inference in Industrial Summarization

Viktor Ciroski
When 100% of our prototype outputs were valid JSON but 0% met the data contract, we discovered the LLM was doing work that software should own. A field classification exercise and 4-pass pipeline brought schema compliance from 0% to 100%.
ISE Developer Blog
Jun 18, 2026
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Meet the Agent Academy Hackathon Winners

April Dunnam
From May 12 to June 2, 2026, builders from around the world put their Agent Academy learning to the test by designing, building, and shipping real, working AI agents with Copilot Studio. After two weeks of judging, we’re thrilled to announce the Agent Academy Hackathon winners. 🏆...
Power Platform Developer Blog
Jun 18, 2026
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Outcome-driven learning systems: Enterprise RL with OpenEnv and Foundry

Govind Kamtamneni
We shipped a lot at Build 2026: hosted agents, Toolboxes, Foundry IQ, Memory, Managed Compute, fine‑tuning, Frontier Tuning, and a new evaluation and optimization stack. Read as a feature list, it is a lot to hold in your head. So here is a simpler way to see it: these are the parts...
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Jun 18, 2026
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DirectX Dump Files Preview Now Available!

Jacques van Rhyn
At this year’s GDC, we shared our vision for bringing console‑level GPU developer tools to Windows. As part of that announcement, we introduced DirectX Dump Files as a major step forward in GPU crash debugging on Windows. Today, we’re excited to make our DirectX Dump Files public...
DirectX Developer Blog
Jun 18, 2026
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PIX 2606.18-preview: DirectX Dump Files and more

Austin Kinross
Today we released PIX 2606.18-preview, available here. This PIX release coincides with the preview availability of DirectX Dump Files (.dxdmp). The PIX UI can open DirectX Dump Files directly for analysis, and the PIX API can be used to analyze them programmatically. Please visit the...
PIX on Windows
Jun 18, 2026
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Stop overloading your skills

Waldek Mastykarz
You built a skill for your technology. API references, authentication flows, SDK patterns, error handling, version info, all packed into one skill. The agent calls it, gets all that context, and generates code. The kicker? You've just wasted a lot of tokens. It already knows Models have...
Microsoft for Developers
Jun 18, 2026
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Why doesn't Get­Last­Input­Info() return info for the user I'm impersonating?

Raymond Chen
It doesn't care about impersonation, says so on the tin.
The Old New Thing
Jun 18, 2026
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Announcing TypeScript 7.0 RC

Daniel Rosenwasser
Today we are excited to announce the Release Candidate of TypeScript 7.0! If you haven't been following TypeScript 7.0's development, this release is significant in that it is built on a completely new foundation. Over the past year, we have been porting the existing TypeScript...
TypeScript
Jun 18, 2026
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Use your own language model key in VS Code

Kayla Cinnamon
Learn how to use bring your own key (BYOK) in VS Code to add models from providers like Azure, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenAI, Huggingface, OpenRouter, or use a local model with Ollama, Foundry Local, and more. Read the full article
VS Code Blog