As AI agents become central to how we build and interact with modern productivity apps, developers need tools that are flexible, standard-based, and deeply integrated with AI. That’s where the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit MCP Server
This post walks through how to implement a "build once, deploy everywhere" pattern using Azure Developer CLI (azd) that provisions environment-specific infrastructure and promotes applications from dev to prod with t
Integration testing has always presented a fundamental challenge: how do you test your application against real dependencies without the complexity of managing external services? Traditional approaches often involve either mocking dependencies (which can miss integration issues) or maintaining separate test environments (which can be expensive
The C++/WinRT library provides the winrt::resume_foreground() function for resuming a coroutine on the foreground thread of a dispatcher. It supports three types of dispatchers: Windows.UI.Core.CoreDispatcher, Windows.System.DispatcherQueue, Micros
We’re excited to announce the latest 1.21 release of the CMake Tools extension for Visual Studio Code. This update brings a host of new updates, including addressing one of our top-voted issues for multi-root improvements and adding
When building applications that interact with databases, developers frequently encounter scenarios where default SDK configurations don't align with their specific operational requirements. They need to customize SDK behavior to address real-world challenges like network instability, performance bottlenecks, debugging complexity, monitoring re
The Windows Runtime provides a class named PropertyValue which is a helper class for boxing non-inspectables. "Boxing" means taking a value type and wrapping inside an object so it can be used as an object type, and in the Windows Runtime, "objects" are represented by the IInspectable interface. There are
We've been talking a lot about the Model Context Protocol (MCP) lately, including recent blog posts and sessions at Microsoft Build. In this post, I'd like to share some top tips for how you can use MCP servers we've been building to improve yo
