With Visual Studio 2026 version 18.0 getting closer to General Availability (GA), we want to share with you how you can upgrade your projects from your current versions of Visual Studio and the Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools to the latest versions.
You might, for some reason, be building some XAML in code rather than markup. Starting with this XAML: <!-- XAML markup --> <Grid> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> </Grid>
We continue to be humbled by the incredible momentum of SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and the growth it is driving with our customers and partners. There are tens of millions of users across the world using custom SPFx solutions on a daily basis in Microsoft 365 – built by our customers and pa
The October 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) is now available. In this month, we are bringing you improvements to model choices, agentic flows, and chat thread management.
We're thrilled to announce the release of Dev Proxy v1.3.0! This update introduces two powerful new plugins: HAR file generation for universal debugging and LLM usage tracking for cost optimization, along with enhanced permissions analysis and improved OpenAPI spec generation for complex testing scenarios. In this version: New
Hello Java customers! We are happy to announce the latest July 2025 patch & security update release for the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK. Download and install the binaries today. OpenJDK 25.0.1 OpenJDK 21.0.9 OpenJDK 17.0.17 OpenJDK 11.0.29
In the next few months, Microsoft will be removing the legacy authentication protocol known as IDCRL (Identity Client Run Time Library) in SharePoint and force calls to rely on OpenID connect and OAuth Protocols. Since 2018, regular sign-in for services such as OneDrive and SharePoint has always relied on the more secure OpenID Connect and OAu
AI is changing how we build software, but it also introduces new challenges: how do you know if your AI application is giving the right answers and producing the right outcomes? Evaluations (often referred to simply as ‘evals’) provide a structured way to measure quality so you can trust your results. In this blog, we’ll introduce the
