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Modernize .NET applications in the GitHub Copilot app
Modernize .NET applications in the GitHub Copilot app. Follow your upgrade from assessment through execution in an interactive upgrade canvas.
Read moreClick to read more about this postAgent Harness: Scaling the claw or harness capabilities
Part 3 of Build your own claw and harness with Microsoft Agent Framework.
In Part 2 our personal finance assistant learned to work with your data safely: it reads your portfolio, asks before it trades, and remembers what matters across sessions. It's useful - but everything it knows is...
Read moreClick to read more about this postDon't rewrite your CLI for agents
There's advice making the rounds: replace your CLI args with a single --json payload so agents can use your tool more effectively. The thinking being, that agents already think in structured formats, and nested data maps cleanly to JSON. Flat args on the other hand, force awkward...
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Jul 14, 2026
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Rethinking C++ Performance: Faster Code Navigation and GitHub Copilot Tools with Whole Codebase Indexing
Alexandra,
Henrique,
Sinem
In large C++ codebases, your code understanding and navigation depend on quickly determining how symbols, declarations, definitions, and references are connected across your project.
In Visual Studio Insiders 18.9, the new whole codebase indexing (WCI) enhances the existing browse...
C++ Team Blog
Jul 14, 2026
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.NET and .NET Framework July 2026 servicing releases updates
Rahul,
Tara
A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for July 2026.
.NET Blog
Jul 14, 2026
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CoreCLR Progress and the Mono Timeline for .NET MAUI
CoreCLR is now the only runtime for .NET MAUI mobile apps in .NET 11 Preview 6. Here is where we are, and why we need you to test today.
.NET Blog
Jul 14, 2026
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.NET 11 Preview 6 is now available!
Find out about the new features in .NET 11 Preview 6 across runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, C#, Entity Framework Core, F#, and container images.
.NET Blog
Jul 14, 2026
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Built-in Agent Skills Bring .NET and Azure Expertise into Visual Studio
Simona,
Wendy,
Yun
Visual Studio now includes built-in Agent Skills, created by experts from the .NET and Azure teams, to help you better customize your agentic workflow and complete development tasks more efficiently, starting with the 18.8 Release. Agent Skills are reusable capabilities that enable your...
Visual Studio Blog
Jul 14, 2026
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Package Status
Every package has a set of status flags describing its current health and availability. These can be queried via the Package.Status property.
A package may report more than one status value at a time if multiple conditions apply.
Package Status Groups
The various states fall into three...
Inside MSIX
Jul 14, 2026
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Building Agents for Teams: Turning conversations into outcomes
The Microsoft Teams platform mission is to build the best collaborative platform in the world. We want to make it easy for developers to build agents that participate seamlessly in chats, channels, and meetings, helping teams turn ideas into action in real time. By bringing agents...
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
Jul 14, 2026
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Microspeak: Double-click and drill down
Please, tell me more.
The Old New Thing
Jul 13, 2026
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How a Large Enterprise Migrated 47 TB and 7,000+ Collections to Azure DocumentDB in Under 48 Hours
Large database migrations are where good planning either pays off or falls apart.
In a MongoDB-compatible estate with thousands of collections, the hard part is not only moving data. It is deciding what to move, what to defer, how to sequence the work, and how to keep the system stable...
Azure DocumentDB Blog
