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Copilot Autofix for GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps

Over the last few years, we've encouraged customers to move their repositories from Azure Repos to GitHub, where the newest AI-powered and agentic development experiences land first. Migrating isn't equally simple for everyone. A move to GitHub can range from straightforward to a...
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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 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...
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