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Welcome to SkiaSharp 4.0 Preview 1

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/welcome-to-skia-sharp-40-preview1

Published: April 28, 2026 17:06

Created 10 years ago, SkiaSharp has long been the backbone of cross-platform 2D graphics in .NET. It powers graphics rendering across mobile, desktop, web, and server targets with consistent, high-quality output using the open-source Skia engine. SkiaS

Azure Data Studio is retired: Move your Azure SQL workflow to VS Code in 10 minutes

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/azure-data-studio-is-retired-move-your-azure-sql-workflow-to-vs-code-in-10-minutes

Published: April 27, 2026 18:20

Azure Data Studio (ADS) retired on February 6, 2025, and support ended on February 28, 2026. The recommended path forward is Visual Studio Code with the MSSQL extension. If you used ADS daily, this guide gets you productive quickly in VS Code. The focus is…

Announcing Shader Model 6.10 Preview and AgilitySDK 720 Preview

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/shader-model-6-10-agilitysdk-720-preview

Published: April 27, 2026 17:01

Overview Today, we are pleased to announce that Shader Model 6.10 and other features have been officially released with Agility SDK 1.720-preview and complementary DXC 1.10.2605.2. AgilitySDK 1.720-preview exposes the following features. There's more de

D3D12 LinAlg Matrix Preview

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/d3d12-linalg-preview

Published: April 27, 2026 17:00

Welcome to the D3D12 LinAlg Matrix Preview release! Today, we are excited to announce the preview release for the D3D12 Linear Algebra APIs! This feature set unlocks comprehensive hardware acceleration for Matrix-oriented operations across various use…

CodeAct in Agent Framework: Faster Agents with Fewer Model Turns

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/agent-framework/codeact-with-hyperlight

Published: April 23, 2026 14:24

Modern AI agents often aren't bottlenecked by model quality, they are bottlenecked by orchestration overhead. When an agent chains together many small tool calls, each step typically requires a new model turn, driving up latency and token usage. With…

Another crash caused by uninstaller code injection into Explorer

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260423-00/?p=112261

Published: April 23, 2026 14:00

Some time ago, I noted that any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware.Âą During one of our regular debugging chats, a colleague of mine mentione

Write azd hooks in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or .NET

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azd-multi-language-hooks

Published: April 22, 2026 22:04

Hooks are one of the most popular features in azd, and now you can write them in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or .NET, not just Bash and PowerShell. What's new? The Azure Developer CLI (azd) hook system now supports four more languages beyond Bash and…

Introducing the new hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service: secure, scalable compute built for agents

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/introducing-the-new-hosted-agents-in-foundry-agent-service-secure-scalable-compute-built-for-agents

Published: April 22, 2026 17:30

Agents are already transforming how developers solve problems. Whether it's a coding agent that refactors your repo overnight, a research agent that synthesizes hundreds of documents into a brief, or an ops agent that monitors and remediates infrastructure…

Best of Both Worlds for Agentic Refactoring: GitHub Copilot + MicroVMs via Docker Sandbox

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/best-of-both-worlds-for-agentic-refactoring-github-copilot-microvms-via-docker-sandbox

Published: April 16, 2026 22:09

Legacy codebases frequently contain hardcoded logic and complex build scripts that depend on specific filesystem structures, making them notoriously difficult to modernize in isolated environments. Docker Sandbox addresses this challenge through a…

What's New in Microsoft Foundry Fine-Tuning | April 2026

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-foundry-finetune-april-2026

Published: April 16, 2026 19:34

This month we're shipping three updates that make Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) more accessible, more powerful, and easier to get right: Global Training for o4-mini — train from 13+ Azure regions at lower per-token rates. New model graders — GPT-4.1,…

Free Your Terminal with Detached Mode in Aspire 13.2

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/aspire-detached-mode-and-process-management

Published: April 16, 2026 17:00

Running Aspire apps from the CLI has a friction point: your terminal is locked to the AppHost process. While the app is running, you can't use the terminal to check logs or telemetry. You must open a new terminal window. Worse, if an agent has started your…

What's up with window message 0x0091? We're getting it with unexpected parameters

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260416-00/?p=112240

Published: April 16, 2026 14:00

A customer, via their customer liaison, reported quite some time ago that their program stopped working on Windows XP. (I told you it was quite some time ago.) The customer's investigations revealed that the problem occurred because their window was…

Azure MCP tools now ship built into Visual Studio 2022 — no extension required

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/azure-mcp-tools-now-ship-built-into-visual-studio-2022-no-extension-required

Published: April 15, 2026 17:30

Azure MCP tools now ship built into Visual Studio 2022 — no extension required Azure MCP tools are now built into Visual Studio 2022 as part of the Azure development workload — no separate extension to find, install, or update. You can enable over 230…