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No new Azure DevOps OAuth apps beginning February 2025

Starting February 3, 2025, we will no longer accept new registrations of Azure DevOps OAuth apps. This is the first step we’ll be taking towards our longer-term vision of sunsetting the Azure DevOps OAuth platform. Moving forward, we’ll be publicly advocating all developers that are building applications on top of Azure DevOps REST APIs to […]
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29 Oct 2024

Easily add Unreal Engine classes to your C++ project

Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 introduces a new Add Unreal Engine Class dialog that lets you easily add common Unreal Engine classes to your project. You can also choose to which module to add your class, so you can keep your code organized and modular. To use this feature, you need to have an Unreal Engine […]
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28 Oct 2024

Get AI ready: Inside the Copilot Learning Hub

As we were building the Copilot learning hub on Microsoft Learn earlier this year, I realized how much Copilot was changing the way so many people—from my 78-year-old father to my teammates—complete daily tasks. I had first-hand insight into how, as an...

26 Oct 2024

Using Entra profile information in Azure DevOps

We’re excited to announce the ability to use Entra profile information in Azure DevOps. This has been a long-standing feature request from the community (ex. profile, picture, email, and name). Beyond the convenience of configuring profile information in one place and ensuring the accuracy of personal information, using Entra profile information in Azure DevOps provides […]
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25 Oct 2024

Upgrade Your Windows Forms .NET Projects to the Latest .NET Version for Enhanced Security

Each release of .NET introduces a host of new features and bug fixes that enhance both performance and security. To leverage these benefits both service and desktop application developers must upgrade their applications to the latest .NET versions. Just like other developers wanting to take advantage of the latest .NET enhancements, we are updating our […]
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24 Oct 2024

Get Hands-On with Visual Studio, .NET, AI, and More at Live! 360 next month.

Visual Studio LIVE! Orlando 2024 November 17-22 | Loews Royal Pacific Resort, Orlando, FL We’re only four weeks away from the final Visual Studio Live! event of the year, and we’re close to capacity! Live! 360 Orlando offers something for everyone—whether you’re a developer, IT professional, data specialist, or cybersecurity expert. You’ll have the opportunity […]
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23 Oct 2024

New Certification for Microsoft Fabric data engineers

We’re looking for Microsoft Fabric data engineers to take our new beta exam. Do you have subject matter expertise in data loading patterns, data architectures, and orchestration processes? If so, and if you’re responsible for ingesting and transforming...

23 Oct 2024

Debug CMake Scripts on Linux with Visual Studio

If you are working on a CMake project that targets Linux, you may have encountered some challenges when trying to debug your CMake scripts and CMakeLists.txt files. You may have wondered why your variables are not set correctly, or why your custom commands are not executed as expected. Or you may have simply wanted to […]
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22 Oct 2024

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | September 2024

It’s September, and the seasons are starting to change. Here in the northern hemisphere the temperature is getting cooler, but new Teams features are still bringing the heat!

Last month, we shared helpful updates like ‘Time-based prompts in Copi...

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21 Oct 2024

Coming soon to Shifts: Create open shifts across locations

We’re excited to announce that open shifts across locations in Shifts for Microsoft Teams will soon be available in public preview. This feature enhances flexibility and efficiency for frontline managers and workers, helping businesses manage staffing ...

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19 Oct 2024

Branding your company’s Teams meetings and calls with frosted glass effects

Microsoft Teams continues to innovate, and one of the latest features to enhance your meetings and calls is the frosted glass background effect. This feature allows you to brand your company's Teams meetings and calls in a professional and visually app...

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18 Oct 2024

Prompt like a pro: Powering effective communication with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams Phone

Microsoft 365 Copilot is transforming work in large and small ways. You may already be using it to get a recap of meetings you weren’t able to join, or to analyze chats for key information. It’s definitely changed the way I work and helped me be more p...

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17 Oct 2024

Introducing Pull Request Annotation for CodeQL and Dependency Scanning in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps

In the world of software development, security is paramount. As developers, we strive to write clean, efficient, and most importantly, secure code. GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps has always been at the forefront of providing tools that make it easier to build and release high-quality software. Today, we’re excited to announce a new feature […]
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17 Oct 2024

What’s new with Microsoft Credentials?

Welcome to the October 2024 edition of our Microsoft Credentials roundup, where we highlight the latest portfolio news and updates to inspire and support your training and career journey.
In this article
What’s new with Microsoft Appl...

11 Oct 2024

Celebrating World Mental Health Day: Tech tips and tricks to support your workday

Amid the hustle and bustle of modern life, managing stress and staying productive at work can be overwhelming. It’s no surprise that mental health is the leading disability globally, with 1 in 4 adults affected by mental health conditions at some point...

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10 Oct 2024

Deprecation of the macOS-12 Hosted Pipeline Image

Azure DevOps is starting the deprecation process for the macOS-12 (Monterey) hosted pilelines image. While the image is being deprecated, you may experience longer queue times during peak usage hours. Deprecation will begin on October 7 and the image will be fully unsupported by December 3. Pipeline jobs using the macOS-12 image label should be […]
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1 Oct 2024

Prove your data engineering skills and join the AI transformation

In this era of rapid technological advancement, data engineering skills are indispensable. This is particularly true as organizations strive to harness the power of AI. Data engineers play a pivotal role in designing and implementing the infrastructure...

1 Oct 2024

Azure Boards, September Update

September was a productive month for Azure Boards, and we’re excited to share some of the new features coming your way. Area and Iteration Level Fields Area and iteration level fields have been crucial for querying or displaying results based on their specific levels: (Root) Level 1 / Level 2 / Level 3 / etc. […]
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27 Sep 2024

New VDI solution for Teams on AVD/Windows 365 environments now generally available

Today Microsoft is excited to announce that the new VDI solution for Teams on Azure Virtual Desktops/Windows 365 environments is generally available.
As explained in our previous blog, this new architecture brings the Teams’ user experience to a ...

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27 Sep 2024

Learn how Copilot agents enhance collaboration within your team on Microsoft Teams

Microsoft brings you the goodness of Copilot across apps that you use with Teams. Several of the apps available to you are meant to enhance your productivity. Some of these are now Copilot enabled. What does that mean? They can be used with Microsoft 3...

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19 Sep 2024

Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative

Build a security-first organization with up-to-date cybersecurity skills

Like others around the globe, your organization is likely dealing with an ever-increasing number of cyberthreats and you need skilled team members to help address them. Acc...

19 Sep 2024

New pricing for Microsoft Certification exams effective November 1, 2024

At Microsoft Learn, we continually review and evolve our portfolio of Microsoft Certifications to help learners around the world stay up to date with the latest technologies in our fast-changing digital world, especially as AI skills become increasingl...

13 Sep 2024

VisualStudio.Extensibility 17.11: Settings and more Remote UI support

We continue to invest in the VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK to allow users like you to create extensions that run faster and smoother than ever before! VisualStudio.Extensibility helps you build extensions that run outside the main Visual Studio IDE process for improved performance and reliability. Additional benefits include a sleek and intuitive .NET 8-based API and comprehensive, […]
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12 Sep 2024

Search scoping helps you find what you’re looking for

If you’re working on a large and complex solution, you might find yourself overwhelmed by the number of results when you use code search in Visual Studio. You might be looking for a specific class, method, or variable, but end up scrolling through pages of irrelevant matches. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could narrow […]
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11 Sep 2024

Break for Async User-Unhandled exceptions in the Visual Studio Debugger

Before .NET 9, the debugger was unable to track exceptions thrown from user-code async methods into non-user code framework methods, such as ASP.NET middleware. We are pleased to announce that you will now start seeing the debugger stop for these user-unhandled exceptions in your ASP.NET applications, as well as anywhere else this might happen! Summary […]
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10 Sep 2024

Supercharge C++ Debugging with AI-Generated breakpoint expressions

Have you ever spent hours debugging your C++ code, struggling to set up the right conditional breakpoint or tracepoint? Or wished for a smarter way to obtain detailed runtime information without manually crafting complex expressions? You’re in luck! With Visual Studio 2022, the latest GitHub Copilot feature now offers AI-generated expressions for both conditional breakpoints […]
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9 Sep 2024

Skill up on Copilot and Microsoft 365

Welcome to our new blog series designed to help you skill up on Copilot and Microsoft 365 technologies. We hope you will make this your go-to source for the latest updates, resources, and opportunities in technical skill building for Copilot and M...

6 Sep 2024

Easily dock and float tool windows

You’re in the middle of a debugging session, attempting to chase down that one issue that is causing you trouble. In the heat of the moment, you grab a tool window and drag it out of its docked position – purely by accident. You didn’t mean to drag it, but sometimes when you move the […]
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5 Sep 2024

Incorporate GitHub Copilot into your daily flow

Streamlining Workflow with GitHub Copilot Have you ever received code completions that are too large to manage or ones that need slight tweaks, but you must accept all the code to make those changes? To address these pain points, in Visual Studio 17.11 we’ve introduced a new feature that allows you to refine your completions […]
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5 Sep 2024

Enhancing your Visual Studio authentication experience

The current cyber security climate demands that applications not only provide outstanding features but also prioritize the security of user data. Applications like Visual Studio rely on token-based authentication to access resources on your behalf. While effective, token-based authentication can be susceptible to attacks if not properly protected. Today, we are happy to announce that […]
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3 Sep 2024

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | August 2024

August is here, and so are some new features and enhancements that make Microsoft Teams even more powerful and easier to use!

In July, we shared ways you can customize how you express yourself in chat, new options for personalizing your gallery ...

30 Aug 2024

New GitHub Copilot features in Visual Studio 2022 17.11

Visual Studio 2022 17.11 now brings exciting advancements from GitHub Copilot! This release significantly improves how GitHub Copilot integrates into your development workflow, offering smarter and more intuitive coding assistance.

Discover the new GitHub Copilot features in Visual Studio, such as enhanced context understanding,
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30 Aug 2024

C++ Gaming Productivity Update for Visual Studio 2022 version 17.11

Introduction

In Visual Studio 2022 version 17.11, you will find brand new productivity enhancements for your game development workflows. From faster conditional breakpoints to a swath of Unreal Engine enhancements, we have added various productivity boosters based on your feedback. Once again,
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28 Aug 2024

Microsoft Teams in-depth: Learning content on demand

Make collaboration easier and smarter. Stay focused, work together, and achieve more with one platform for all your communication needs. That’s what Microsoft Teams is all about. We’re all about clarity and familiarity with the product, how it works, a...

27 Aug 2024

New IDE features in Visual Studio v17.11

In Visual Studio 2022 v17.11, you’ll discover several new features that address specific issues developers have reported. These updates don’t belong to a distinct category, but we’re dedicated to sharing them with you in this blog post. You can download the update and view the comprehensive release notes for full details.
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26 Aug 2024

Enhancing Code Comprehension: GitHub Copilot’s Features in Visual Studio 2022 17.11

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022 17.11 now offers an improved experience you to refer to their methods, classes, functions, and entire solution directly within the chat. By using the # symbol followed by the name of a method, class, or function,
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22 Aug 2024

Introducing Object Limit Tracker in Azure DevOps

We’re excited to introduce the Object Limit Tracker in Azure DevOps! This new feature provides real-time visibility into resource usage for each organization and project directly within Azure DevOps. By offering insights into commonly asked limits, we enable users to manage resources more proactively and prevent potential issues.
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22 Aug 2024