Installing two anti-malware programs on the same system is like hiring two different security companies to patrol your building. If they don’t know about each other, each is going to think the other ...

Software developers, and the software development process, live on the bleeding edge of technological trends. We talk to developers every day, and we’ve heard that expectations for innovation continue ...

Today we are highlighting improvements across a few key open-source projects many of you already use, as well as updates to Windows ML. To empower developers, we must support the broad range of tools ...

Reliable testing of UWP and WinUI 3 apps needs the app’s real UI dispatcher, not just a single-threaded apartment (STA) thread, so that test setup, async test code, and cleanup all run with UI-thread ...

An MSIX package identity is composed of a five-part tuple that uniquely identifies a package. It consists of the following attributes: Together, these fields form the canonical identity of a package.

Summary: Guest blogger, Doug Finke talks about his PowerShell Excel module. The PowerShell Excel Module is a brand new, exciting, and better way to interact with Microsoft Excel from Windows ...

At Microsoft Build 2026, we introduced WSL containers, bringing Linux container development directly into Windows through the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Containers have become a foundational ...

Developers who want to take agents to production find themselves managing a list of things that have nothing to do with the agent’s actual intelligence: Hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service were ...

At Build 2026, Microsoft Foundry added more of the platform pieces developers need for production agents: runtime, tools, memory, grounding, models, observability, and governance. This recap ...

In Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 you can automatically complete code, up to a whole line at a time! Check out the video to see what it can do; it shows writing real code from a controller of the ...

As we come to towards the end of 2023, we are excited to announce the general availability of PowerShell 7.4! This release is built on .NET 8 and similarly, is our latest Long Term Support (LTS) ...

BUILD 2026 is underway, and the Microsoft Agent Framework team have a round-up of exciting announcements! Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) is our open-source SDK and runtime for building AI agents and ...