Greetings! Welcome to my contribution to this year’s Azure Back to School event. Thanks as always to the event organisers – Dwayne Natwick and Derek Smith. This year I’ve opted to…

In this post we look at the new support for platform-specific .NET tools, so that you can pack your tools as self-contained or Native AOT packages

Meet Ask Ralph, an AI-powered styling companion that helps with product discovery and inspires consumers with Ralph Lauren’s unique and iconic take on style. Learn more.

Microsoft introduced the Awesome Copilot MCP Server for GitHub Copilot customizations as the MCP community unveiled the official MCP Registry, a cross-company catalog for discovering servers.

A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for September 2025.

This post is just to serve as a timely reminder to ensure that you are ready for the upcoming behaviour changes in how Azure will treat default outbound network access. Azure will soon change how d…

Microsoft unveiled Visual Studio 2026 Insiders at VSLive! San Diego, introducing deep GitHub Copilot integration, performance and productivity upgrades, a Fluent UI redesign with new themes, and the new Insiders Channel to replace Preview.

A Simpler Way to Navigate, Learn, and Optimize your Azure Cosmos DB Account within the Azure Portal.

Take a tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 10.

Find out why integration is what transforms an agent from a clever prototype into a force multiplier across a business.

Entra ID and RBAC support for Get Account Information and other supplemental APIs for Azure Storage is now GA.

Use Copilot Chat to generate Mermaid diagram and preview it in your markdown editor to help visualize complex concepts!

Discover how the Copilot Profiler Agent in Visual Studio 2026 makes performance tuning easier. Get AI-driven insights, identify bottlenecks, and apply real fixes with guided validation—no profiling expertise required

Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.104, adding Auto model selection and support for contributed language models in chat, alongside security, productivity, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) improvements.

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News FScrobble is a Linux and MPRIS-Compatible music scrobbling service that captures your listening habits(built from the ground …

Learn how to programmatically open Windows Explorer to a specific folder using C# and the Microsoft.Windows.CsWin32 package. This post explains the required setup, provides sample code, and discusses alternative approaches for improved developer experience.

With built-in support for local NVMe drives, learn how ACStor now delivers our fastest, most powerful Kubernetes storage platform on Azure.

Microsoft has released .NET Aspire 9.4, its biggest update to date. This version introduces a native AOT Command Line Interface (CLI), new interactive

Learn how Application Insights Code Optimizations helps .NET developers identify performance bottlenecks and get AI-powered recommendations through GitHub Copilot integration.

Developers are increasingly relying on AI agents to both build new software as well as extend capabilities of existing projects that they support. One challenge with AI-based systems, however, is that to produce the right output you need to first establish…