Expanding the many ways in which users can interact with our apps is one of the most exciting parts of working with modern AI models and device capabilities. With .NET MAUI, it's easy to enhance your app from a text-based experience to one that supports voice, vision, and more. Previously I covered a

I'm happy to announce that SQL Server 2025 CTP 2.1 is now available, and it brings significant improvements to DiskANN support. While DiskANN remains in preview, each release continues to remove limit

What is Azure AI Foundry and Foundry Local? Azure AI Foundry is Microsoft's comprehensive platform for enterprise AI development and deployment, enabling organizations to build, customize, and operate AI solutions at scale. It provides tools, services, and infrastructure to develop, fine-tune and deploy AI models in production envi

A few weeks ago at BUILD, we announced the upcoming Azure DevOps MCP Server: 👉 Azure DevOps with GitHub Repositories – Your path to Agentic AI Today, we’re excited to share that the local Azure DevOps MCP

Copilot agent mode is the next evolution in AI-assisted development—and it's now generally available in the Visual Studio June update. Agent mode turns GitHub Copilot into an autonomous pair programmer capable of handling multi-step development tasks from end to end. It builds a plan, executes it, adapts along the way, and loops through t

[alert type="important" heading="Guest Post"]Larry Silverman is the Chief Technology Officer at TrackAbout, Inc. (a Datacor company) and a long-time user of Azure SQL Database and SQL Server. In this blog post Larry shares a novel open-source solution which addresses a core need for their business. Thanks, Larry! [/alert]

Some time ago, I told the story of the time the development manager for Windows 95 bought one copy of every PC program in the Egghead Software store and

We're excited to announce the June 2025 release of the Python, Pylance and Jupyter ext