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Streamlining your Git workflow with Visual Studio 2026

You’re a .NET developer with a busy morning, and an Azure DevOps ticket drops: “Login endpoint 500s under load.” You’ve got to fix it, review a teammate’s feature branch, and keep your repo clean - all before lunch. Visual Studio’s Git tools turn this everyday Git workflow of...
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Retirement of Global Personal Access Tokens in Azure DevOps

In the new year, we’ll be retiring the Global Personal Access Token (PAT) type in Azure DevOps. Global PATs allow users to authenticate across all accessible organizations. While this can feel convenient, a single credential with broad reach creates a concentrated security risk —...
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Dec 19, 2025
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Azure Developer CLI (azd) Dec 2025 - Extensions Enhancements, Foundry Rebranding, and Azure Pipelines Improvements

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Kristen Womack
This post announces the December release of the Azure Developer CLI (`azd`).
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Dec 19, 2025
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Work item linking for Advanced Security alerts now available

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Laura Jiang
Security vulnerabilities don't fix themselves. Someone needs to track them, prioritize them, and actually ship the fix. If you've ever tried to manage security alerts alongside your regular sprint work, though, you know the friction: you're looking at an alert in one tab, switching to...
Azure DevOps Blog
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Dec 19, 2025
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A shortcut gives me a weird path for a program shortcut that doesn't point to the executable, so what is it?

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Raymond Chen
It's a placeholder because the shortcut is to an MSI application.
The Old New Thing
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Dec 18, 2025
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What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | October and November 2025

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Jenn Cockrell
Azure AI Foundry is now Microsoft Foundry. Read the latest announcements about agents, models, tools and more.
Microsoft Foundry Blog
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Dec 18, 2025
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AI Coding Agents and Domain-Specific Languages: Challenges and Practical Mitigation Strategies

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Chris Romp
1. Introduction AI coding agents/assistants such as GitHub Copilot have become common in modern software engineering workflows. Their strengths—rapid pattern completion, context-aware suggestions, and the ability to learn style from local code—stem from broad training on large...
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Dec 18, 2025
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Concluding thoughts on our deep dive into Windows clipboard text conversion

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Raymond Chen
Stick to Unicode and you'll be fine.
The Old New Thing
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Dec 18, 2025
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Introducing the Copilot Studio + Azure AI Search Solution

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Ian Jensen
Introduction to a scaleable and secure turnkey architecture for deploying Copilots connected to Azure AI Search.
ISE Developer Blog
JanusGraph and Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra: A Powerful Combination
Dec 17, 2025
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Unlock the power of distributed graph databases with JanusGraph and Azure Apache Cassandra

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Srikanth Sridhar
Connecting the Dots: How Graph Databases Drive Innovation In today’s data-rich world, organizations face challenges that go beyond simple tables and rows. Whether it’s uncovering hidden relationships in social networks, detecting fraud, or powering recommendation engines, graph...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
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Dec 17, 2025
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Celebrating 10 Years of DirectX 12

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Stefan Bojanic
DirectX12 shipped in 2015 with a simple goal: give developers more control so games run faster, look better, and scale across Windows PC and console. Over the last decade, DirectX 12 delivered on that promise. We added features and made it easier for developers to focus on gameplay &...
DirectX Developer Blog