Beyond Chat: live Speech-to-Text with Foundry Local and C# - .NET Blog

Build a live speech-to-text app in C# with Foundry Local, a compact Nemotron model, and local model lifecycle management.

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C++ Dashboard — what matters in C++ right now

What matters in C++ right now — a curated dashboard of C++ articles, videos, events, books, and standard tracking.

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Automatic CSRF protection based on Fetch Metadata headers

In this post I describe the new Cross-Site Request Forgery protection added to ASP.NET Core that uses Fetch Metadata HTTP headers instead of antiforgery tokens

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Strengthening NuGet Supply Chain Security: Reducing API Key Lifetime - .NET Blog

NuGet API key durations will be reduced to 30 days starting August 17th. This change will significantly strengthen the integrity of the NuGet supply chain.

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From generated code to trusted code with a unit-test agent - .NET Blog

Meet the open-source polyglot testing agent that learns from a repository, writes unit tests, and checks that they build and pass.

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🚀 Foundry Toolkit for VS Code — July 2026 Update | Microsoft Community Hub

July was a clean-up-and-level-up month. Four releases shipped for the Foundry Toolkit for VS Code: 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.5, and 1.6.6. The theme this month...

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MAI-Code-1-Flash: early results from real developer workflows

MAI-Code-1-Flash is a lightweight coding model purpose built for the fast, iterative work developers do every day in GitHub. In this post, we share what the data is telling us about how it performs in...

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Azure SDK Release (July 2026)

Azure SDK releases every month. This post includes the July 2026's highlights and release notes.

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How Mesh Systems Builds on Azure IoT Hub and Azure IoT Operations to Accelerate Industrial AI | Microsoft Community Hub

Manufacturers generate vast amounts of operational data, yet its complexity and fragmentation across historians, Operational Technology (OT) systems, and...

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The Token Economics of the Edge: Running Qwen3 on a Windows NPU with WinML CLI | Microsoft Community Hub

The number that changes the conversation Most "run an LLM locally" tutorials start with the model. This one starts with a bill. Every token a cloud LLM...

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Understanding the Fetch Metadata HTTP headers: Sec-Fetch-Site and friends

In this post I describe the Fetch Metadata HTTP headers like Sec-Fetch-Site and Sec-Fetch-Mode which give information to a server about the context of a request

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Visual Studio July Update — Meet the New Agent, Powered by the GitHub Copilot SDK - Visual Studio Blog

There's a new Agent (Preview) in Copilot Chat, built on the same GitHub Copilot SDK that powers the GitHub Copilot CLI, that gets more done with less back-and-forth.

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Refactor your database with SQL projects in VS Code - Azure SQL Dev Corner

SQL database projects are a fundamental tool for keeping your database in source control, tracking changes and collaborating on quickly evolving database

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Query Performance Tuning in Azure DocumentDB: A Practical Guide - Azure DocumentDB Blog

Improve Azure DocumentDB query performance with Log Analytics, explain() plans, ESR compound indexes, index-backed sorts, and covered queries

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Analyze MSBuild Binary Logs with Copilot in VS Code - .NET Blog

Meet the MSBuild Binlog Analyzer for VS Code - a Copilot-powered way to read MSBuild binary logs, explain and fix build failures with one click, compare builds, and catch regressions, backed by the Mi...

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A new way to bring native Windows APIs to JavaScript - introducing dynamic API projections for Node.js - #ifdef Windows

Electron and Node.js make it straightforward to build Windows desktop apps in JavaScript. Calling Windows Runtime APIs has been less straightforward: A dynamic WinRT projection for Node.js — call Wind...

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The PImpl idiom and the C++26 std::indirect type

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Build locally, ship to Azure: meet Azure SQL Developer - Azure SQL Dev Corner

Explore Azure SQL Developer, now in private preview, for seamless development using the Azure SQL Database engine locally.

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Windows App Development CLI v0.5.0 - expanded UI automation, JS/TS bindings, and more - #ifdef Windows

WinApp CLI v0.5.0 greatly expands the UI automation toolkit (recording, touch, pen, and keyboard injection), lets you call Windows Runtime APIs straight

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Introducing the ETW MCP: AI-assisted ETL trace analysis, headless and in your terminal - Performance and Diagnostics

If you’ve ever opened an ETL trace with hundreds of data tables and wondered “where do I even start?” This post is for you. We’re releasing an early

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Visual Studio 2026 Gives Copilot Built-In Skills -- and Makes Them Prove Their Worth -- Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft is moving Agent Skills beyond bring-your-own instructions by shipping expert-authored workflows with the IDE, while keeping them off by default until testing shows their benefits justify the...

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Pure Virtual C++ 2026 Is Now Live! - C++ Team Blog

Pure Virtual C++ 2026 is streaming now — watch five featured sessions live with Q&A, plus a full on-demand playlist, all free.

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Gemini 3.6 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot - GitHub Changelog

Gemini 3.6 Flash, Google’s latest Flash model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for web and app development, coding, and longer-horizon agentic tasks. It has configurable…

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C++ Dependencies Without the Headache: vcpkg + Copilot CLI - C++ Team Blog

At Pure Virtual C++ 2026, we build a C++ console app from an empty folder using CMake, MSVC, and GitHub Copilot CLI. This walkthrough shows a practical prompt sequence for dependency selection, reprod...

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C++ Weekly - Ep 542 - C++26's inplace_vector

YouTube video by C++ Weekly With Jason Turner

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Announcing a New Visual Manifest Editor in the WinApp VS Code Extension - #ifdef Windows

The WinApp VS Code extension exists to make Windows app development feel at home in VS Code. It brings the Windows App Development CLI right into the

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Copilot AI Billing Shock Met with Meters, Caps and Token-Saving Tools -- Visual Studio Magazine

GitHub is layering spending limits, expanded credit allowances and increasingly granular usage reporting onto Copilot, while Microsoft is reworking Visual Studio and VS Code to expose -- and reduce --...

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T-SQL Hygiene: Introducing the Covering Index - Azure SQL Dev Corner

Learn what a covering index is, how predicates and projections shape it, and when to use one to speed up important SQL Server queries.

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Cumulative Update #7 for SQL Server 2025 RTM | Microsoft Community Hub

The 7th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2025 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no...

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Cumulative Update #26 for SQL Server 2022 RTM | Microsoft Community Hub

The 26th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2022 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no...

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