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Strengthen Azure Cosmos DB security by eliminating account keys and using Microsoft Entra ID, modern RBAC, and Zero Trust access for cloud apps.

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Discover the February roadmap for AI in Visual Studio, with improvements in reliability and integrations for better performance.

The azd development (dev) container feature now supports an extensions option. You can specify a comma-separated list of azd extensions in your dev container configuration, and they install automatically when the container builds.

When Visual Studio 2026 reached General Availability in November, it included several versions of the Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools: 14.50 (initially shipped with Visual Studio 2026) 14.44 (initially shipped with Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14) ...

Custom agent support for Azure Boards integration with GitHub Copilot, allowing selection from a list of custom agents when creating a pull request.