⚡️ GPT‑5.2 Sets a New Bar for Enterprise AI
Microsoft Foundry introduces GPT‑5.2, taking enterprise AI to a new level with stronger reasoning, agentic workflows, and built‑in compliance. Designed for developers and tech leaders who need power and accountability in production-ready AI systems.
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Microsoft Foundry introduces GPT‑5.2, taking enterprise AI to a new level with stronger reasoning, agentic workflows, and built‑in compliance. Designed for developers and tech leaders who need power and accountability in production-ready AI systems.
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Microsoft Azure Blog
GPT‑5.2 in Microsoft Foundry: Enterprise AI Reinvented | Microsoft Azure Blog
Explore GPT‑5.2 in Microsoft Foundry—advanced reasoning, agentic execution, and compliance-ready AI for enterprise scale.
⚡️ dtSearch adds Linux ARM64 and sharper data parsing
The 2025.02 release of dtSearch brings full Linux ARM64 builds and refreshed x64/ARM64 versions for Windows and macOS. JSON and CSV processing also get a boost — a practical upgrade for enterprises and developers handling large-scale indexing and analytics workloads.
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The 2025.02 release of dtSearch brings full Linux ARM64 builds and refreshed x64/ARM64 versions for Windows and macOS. JSON and CSV processing also get a boost — a practical upgrade for enterprises and developers handling large-scale indexing and analytics workloads.
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Visual Studio Magazine
dtSearch Adds Linux ARM64 Build and Boosts JSON/CSV Support in 2025.02 Release -- Visual Studio Magazine
dtSearch version 2025.02 extends its search engine line with new Linux ARM64 support, updated x64/ARM64 builds for Windows and macOS, and enhanced JSON/CSV handling for high-volume enterprise and developer workloads.
⚡️ Azure DevOps Ends Global Personal Access Tokens
Microsoft is retiring Global Personal Access Tokens in Azure DevOps, closing a long‑standing security loophole. Global PATs gave users cross‑organization access with a single key — convenient, but risky. The move signals a tighter security posture for development teams managing sprawling DevOps estates.
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Microsoft is retiring Global Personal Access Tokens in Azure DevOps, closing a long‑standing security loophole. Global PATs gave users cross‑organization access with a single key — convenient, but risky. The move signals a tighter security posture for development teams managing sprawling DevOps estates.
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Microsoft News
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…
⚡️ VS Code 1.107 doubles down on multi-agent AI
Microsoft’s November 2025 VS Code update pushes deeper into AI-native tooling. Version 1.107 strengthens multi-agent orchestration for GitHub Copilot and custom agents, adds a unified Language Models editor with new safety controls, and extends integration work with TypeScript 7 and MCP — signaling a mature, developer-centric AI workflow inside the editor itself.
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Microsoft’s November 2025 VS Code update pushes deeper into AI-native tooling. Version 1.107 strengthens multi-agent orchestration for GitHub Copilot and custom agents, adds a unified Language Models editor with new safety controls, and extends integration work with TypeScript 7 and MCP — signaling a mature, developer-centric AI workflow inside the editor itself.
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Visual Studio Magazine
VS Code 1.107 (November 2025 Update) Expands Multi-Agent Orchestration, Model Management -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft's November 2025 Visual Studio Code update (version 1.107) advances multi-agent orchestration for GitHub Copilot and custom agents, adds a centralized Language Models editor and new safety controls, and continues work on TypeScript 7 and MCP integration.
⚡️ GitHub Spark adds enterprise-grade features
GitHub expands Spark — its AI-driven, prompt-based app builder — with enterprise support, billing integration, and a refreshed UI. Still in public preview, Spark is shaping up as GitHub’s boldest step beyond Copilot toward full-stack AI-assisted development.
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GitHub expands Spark — its AI-driven, prompt-based app builder — with enterprise support, billing integration, and a refreshed UI. Still in public preview, Spark is shaping up as GitHub’s boldest step beyond Copilot toward full-stack AI-assisted development.
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Visual Studio Magazine
GitHub Updates Spark, Its AI Prompt-Based App Builder -- Visual Studio Magazine
GitHub Spark, an AI app-generation tool separate from Copilot still in public preview, gains enterprise, billing, and UI upgrades in its latest update.
⚡️ Inside the Making of F#: 2025 Reflections
The latest F# Weekly dives deep into how the functional language keeps evolving in 2025. From design philosophy to community-driven tooling, it reveals what it takes to sustain innovation in a language built for clarity and composition — and why that still matters in the age of AI and polyglot stacks.
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The latest F# Weekly dives deep into how the functional language keeps evolving in 2025. From design philosophy to community-driven tooling, it reveals what it takes to sustain innovation in a language built for clarity and composition — and why that still matters in the age of AI and polyglot stacks.
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Sergey Tihon's Blog
F# Weekly #50, 2025 – Making of A Programming Language
Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News .NET 10 Networking Improvements – .NET Blog Microsoft Learn MCP Server Elevates Development – .NET Blog Implement…
⚡️ Essential FFmpeg CLI tricks for video pros
FFmpeg keeps proving it's the Swiss Army knife of media processing. This concise cheat sheet distills key commands — from stripping audio tracks to optimizing videos for streaming — showing how a few flags can replace an entire batch of GUI tools.
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FFmpeg keeps proving it's the Swiss Army knife of media processing. This concise cheat sheet distills key commands — from stripping audio tracks to optimizing videos for streaming — showing how a few flags can replace an entire batch of GUI tools.
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Meziantou's blog
ffmpeg cheatsheet
In this post, I describe how to use ffmpeg for various video and audio processing tasks.
⚡️ When Tests Lie: The Hidden Risk in Automated Testing
Automated testing rests on a paradox — we trust code to validate code. A failing test before a passing one is more than ritual; it’s proof the system works. Forget that red-green-refactor loop, and you risk building confidence on a tautology instead of data.
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Automated testing rests on a paradox — we trust code to validate code. A failing test before a passing one is more than ritual; it’s proof the system works. Forget that red-green-refactor loop, and you risk building confidence on a tautology instead of data.
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ploeh blog
Tautological assertions are not always caused by aliasing
You can also make mistakes that compile in Haskell.
⚡️ How Visual Studio Turns Feedback Into Action
The Visual Studio team is pulling back the curtain on how user feedback actually shapes the product. Moving past the 'black hole' feeling of bug reports, Microsoft emphasizes a tighter feedback loop designed to make coding in VS smoother, faster, and truly responsive to developers’ voices.
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The Visual Studio team is pulling back the curtain on how user feedback actually shapes the product. Moving past the 'black hole' feeling of bug reports, Microsoft emphasizes a tighter feedback loop designed to make coding in VS smoother, faster, and truly responsive to developers’ voices.
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Microsoft News
Behind the scenes of the Visual Studio feedback system
Here on the Visual Studio team, our top priority is making your coding experience smoother and more enjoyable. And that begins with truly listening to your feedback. We understand that sometimes sharing your thoughts can feel like tossing bug reports and…
⚡️ Building iOS Widgets with .NET MAUI
.NET MAUI now lets developers build fully featured iOS widgets — from static tiles to interactive, dynamic elements. It bridges native iOS design with cross-platform C# workflows, bringing app extensions directly into the MAUI development flow.
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.NET MAUI now lets developers build fully featured iOS widgets — from static tiles to interactive, dynamic elements. It bridges native iOS design with cross-platform C# workflows, bringing app extensions directly into the MAUI development flow.
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Microsoft News
How to Build iOS Widgets with .NET MAUI
Build professional iOS widgets with .NET MAUI, from static displays to interactive widgets.
⚡️ Prompt Noise Is Undermining Your AI Accuracy
Overloaded prompts are silently wrecking AI reliability. Teams packing every policy, schema and edge case into a single context end up triggering hallucinations, not grounding. True optimization isn’t about more data—it’s about cleaner, sharper context that lets models focus on what really matters.
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Overloaded prompts are silently wrecking AI reliability. Teams packing every policy, schema and edge case into a single context end up triggering hallucinations, not grounding. True optimization isn’t about more data—it’s about cleaner, sharper context that lets models focus on what really matters.
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Build5Nines
Prompt Noise Is Killing Your AI Accuracy: How To Optimize Context For Grounded Output | Build5Nines
The most common reason an AI system “hallucinates” in production isn’t that the model is dumb. It’s that we’re drowning it.
⚡️ Building a .NET CLR Profiler with C# and NativeAOT
Profiling the .NET CLR no longer means diving into C++. Using C# together with NativeAOT and the Silhouette library, developers can now build lightweight, high-performance profilers in managed code. It’s a clean demonstration of how modern .NET tooling is closing the gap between runtime internals and everyday developer workflows.
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Profiling the .NET CLR no longer means diving into C++. Using C# together with NativeAOT and the Silhouette library, developers can now build lightweight, high-performance profilers in managed code. It’s a clean demonstration of how modern .NET tooling is closing the gap between runtime internals and everyday developer workflows.
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Andrew Lock | .NET Escapades
Creating a .NET CLR profiler using C# and NativeAOT with Silhouette
In this post I look at how to create a simple .NET profiler. But instead of using C++, the profiler uses C# and NativeAOT with the Silhouette library
⚡️ Visual Studio 2026 reimagines debugging flow
Visual Studio 2026 aims to strip the drama from debugging — turning that sinking 'it worked yesterday' moment into a faster, clearer process. It’s built for real-world developers like Sam, who need context and insight, not noise, when code breaks. Microsoft’s message is clear: debugging should guide, not frustrate.
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Visual Studio 2026 aims to strip the drama from debugging — turning that sinking 'it worked yesterday' moment into a faster, clearer process. It’s built for real-world developers like Sam, who need context and insight, not noise, when code breaks. Microsoft’s message is clear: debugging should guide, not frustrate.
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Microsoft News
Debugging, but Without the Drama (A Visual Studio 2026 Story)
Understand how the Visual Studio 2026 Debugger accelerates your workflow, making debugging less frustrating and more effective.
⚡️ Azure DevOps Adds Full Microsoft.Testing.Platform Support
Azure DevOps now fully supports Microsoft.Testing.Platform, enabling seamless test execution and results publishing without extra setup. For development teams, that means tighter CI/CD loops and more consistent QA data across projects.
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Azure DevOps now fully supports Microsoft.Testing.Platform, enabling seamless test execution and results publishing without extra setup. For development teams, that means tighter CI/CD loops and more consistent QA data across projects.
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Microsoft News
Microsoft.Testing.Platform Now Fully Supported in Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps enhanced support for Microsoft.Testing.Platform, from running tests to publishing results!
⚡️ JanusGraph meets Azure Cassandra
Distributed graph data goes mainstream: integrating JanusGraph with Azure Apache Cassandra unlocks real-time insights from complex relationships. From fraud detection to social graphs, this combo makes connected data analysis faster and more scalable for enterprise-grade innovation.
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Distributed graph data goes mainstream: integrating JanusGraph with Azure Apache Cassandra unlocks real-time insights from complex relationships. From fraud detection to social graphs, this combo makes connected data analysis faster and more scalable for enterprise-grade innovation.
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Microsoft News
Unlock the power of distributed graph databases with JanusGraph and Azure Apache Cassandra
Learn how JanusGraph with Azure Managed Cassandra enables scalable, high-performance graph applications for complex relationship analysis.
⚡️ Work Item Linking Lands in GitHub Advanced Security
Managing security issues just got smoother in Azure DevOps. GitHub Advanced Security now lets teams link alerts directly to work items, finally closing the gap between vulnerability tracking and sprint workflow. Less tab‑switching, more shipping secure code.
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Managing security issues just got smoother in Azure DevOps. GitHub Advanced Security now lets teams link alerts directly to work items, finally closing the gap between vulnerability tracking and sprint workflow. Less tab‑switching, more shipping secure code.
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Microsoft News
Work item linking for Advanced Security alerts now available
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…
⚡️ ReSharper and Rider 2025.3.1 sharpen developer workflow
The new 2025.3.1 release unites all rapid-response fixes from earlier patches and adds refined Next Edit Suggestions and performance optimizations across ReSharper and Rider. It’s a quality‑of‑life update that closes the loop on urgent issues while polishing the everyday coding experience for JetBrains users.
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The new 2025.3.1 release unites all rapid-response fixes from earlier patches and adds refined Next Edit Suggestions and performance optimizations across ReSharper and Rider. It’s a quality‑of‑life update that closes the loop on urgent issues while polishing the everyday coding experience for JetBrains users.
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⚡️ Azure Developer CLI gets pipeline and extension boost
The December update to Azure Developer CLI (azd) sharpens its developer workflow with upgraded extension handling, streamlined Azure Pipelines integration, and a refreshed Foundry identity. Microsoft keeps tightening the loop between local dev setups and cloud CI/CD — less friction, more speed for app delivery.
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The December update to Azure Developer CLI (azd) sharpens its developer workflow with upgraded extension handling, streamlined Azure Pipelines integration, and a refreshed Foundry identity. Microsoft keeps tightening the loop between local dev setups and cloud CI/CD — less friction, more speed for app delivery.
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Microsoft News
Azure Developer CLI (azd) Dec 2025 – Extensions Enhancements, Foundry Rebranding, and Azure Pipelines Improvements
Explore the December 2025 release of the Azure Developer CLI. Discover new features in versions 1.22.0 through 1.22.5.
⚡️ WebSharper 10 and Fidelity Framework Released
WebSharper 10 lands with major updates for F# web developers, tightening the bridge between functional programming and modern frontend workflows. Alongside it, the new Fidelity Framework debuts, promising sharper abstraction and more consistent performance across distributed F# services.
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WebSharper 10 lands with major updates for F# web developers, tightening the bridge between functional programming and modern frontend workflows. Alongside it, the new Fidelity Framework debuts, promising sharper abstraction and more consistent performance across distributed F# services.
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Sergey Tihon's Blog
F# Weekly #51, 2025 – WebSharper 10 & Fidelity Framework
Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News WebSharper 10.0 Aspire 13.1 – Our holiday gift to you | Aspire Blog Microsoft.Testing.Platform Now Fully Supported in A…
⚡️ Microsoft Tops Gartner’s AI Platform Rankings
Microsoft has been named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms. The recognition underscores its strength in agent frameworks, orchestration, and enterprise-grade governance—key pillars shaping how enterprises scale AI across real workloads.
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Microsoft has been named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms. The recognition underscores its strength in agent frameworks, orchestration, and enterprise-grade governance—key pillars shaping how enterprises scale AI across real workloads.
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Microsoft Azure Blog
Microsoft named a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Application Development Platforms | Microsoft Azure Blog
Learn how Microsoft Foundry—our unified, interoperable AI platform—is enabling developers to build faster, smarter, and safer AI apps.
⚡️ C++ gets deep Copilot integration in Visual Studio
Microsoft brings C++ into Visual Studio’s deepest Copilot tier, giving developers symbol‑aware AI that can refactor and edit code across files. The new public preview finally puts C++ on par with C#, opening the door to large‑scale, AI‑assisted codebase management inside the IDE.
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Microsoft brings C++ into Visual Studio’s deepest Copilot tier, giving developers symbol‑aware AI that can refactor and edit code across files. The new public preview finally puts C++ on par with C#, opening the door to large‑scale, AI‑assisted codebase management inside the IDE.
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Visual Studio Magazine
C++ Joins C# in Visual Studio's Deep Copilot Tier -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft has moved C++ into Visual Studio's deepest Copilot tier, adding symbol-aware tools in public preview that let Copilot agent mode refactor and edit large C++ codebases across multiple files, similar to the kind of deep integration long associated…