Stop wasting tokens in Claude Code, Codex, and Copilot. Trailhead lists five habits that eat your context window and how to fix them. #AI #Prompting

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Update your .NET 8, 9, and 10 installs and .NET 11 RC3 now. Microsoft released fixes for Brotli decompression and tarball ownership CVEs. #dotnet #security

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Make .NET on macOS and Linux simpler with Microsoft's public preview dotnetup, a user-local tool to install, manage, and update your .NET SDKs and runtimes. #dotnet #DevTools

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Use Mihai Avram's guide to set up multi-agent workflows that automate checks from pre-commit to production and help you keep AI speed without cutting quality. #AI #DevOps

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In this episode, host @JTowerMI sat down with @chimon1984, a senior software engineer, Flutter Google Developer Expert, and co-author of "Cross-Platform UIs with Flutter," to talk about getting started with AI-assisted development.
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Sept 2026 Azure Developer CLI adds dependency-aware extension uninstall, top-level project layers, and per-phase concurrency limits. #Azure #DevOps

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SQL Server on Azure Local is GA. Cloud management, disconnected ops and local AI for sovereign data. #Azure #SQLServer

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Eleven years ago today, we started Trailhead with just a few of us. Today we've grown to a whole team of experienced software engineers guiding our clients with their custom software solutions.

Thank you to our clients for trusting us with your projects!

#SoftwareDevelopment

Azure SDK Sept 2026 roundup lists new 1.0.0 stable packages and previews, like Azure AI Search 12.1.0-beta.2. Check what to upgrade in your projects. #Azure #DevOps

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Architecture diagram doesn’t guarantee resilience. Azure's Essentials, Well-Architected, & Cloud Adoption feels can help, though. #Azure

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Create a C# memory dump to capture your app's state for debugging. Follow the .NET Blog guide below to unlock this powerful skill. #dotnet #debugging #csharp

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Submit your 30-minute session for .NET Conf 2026 Community Days. Microsoft's .NET blog accepts proposals Sep 8 to Oct 6. #dotnet #dotnetconf

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Tell how your team uses .NET to solve real problems at .NET Conf 2026 (Nov 10-12). Microsoft may feature stories during the .NET 11 launch. #dotnet #dotnetconf

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Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot can drop instructions mid-session. Trailhead shows you how to use CLAUDE.md and a second-model review as check gates for your code. #AI #DevSec

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In this episode, host @JTowerMI sat down with @EricDBoyd, founder and CEO of responsiveX, to discuss GitHub's Spec Kit, a spec-driven development toolkit designed to stop an AI coding agent from filling in every blank you leave.
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See how .NET 11's hundreds of micro-optimizations make your runtime and apps faster in a detailed post on the .NET Blog. #dotnet #performance

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Here's a very practical use for the new unions feature coming soon in C# 15: JSON fields that can be a number OR a string. #csharp #dotnet

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Use .NET 11 RC1 go-live support in your production apps. Microsoft adds runtime, SDK, C#, ASP.NET Core, MAUI and tooling updates to help you ship faster. #dotnet #CSharp

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Add frontier AI to your apps with OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, now in Microsoft Foundry's Limited Access Program #AI #Azure

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Check out Uno's 2 MCP servers built with .NET: a docs MCP that grounds agents and an app server that verifies generated XAML. #dotnet #AI

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Let Microsoft's dotnet-test plugin learn your repo, write unit tests, mock dependencies, and verify they build and run. #dotnet #UnitTesting

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Microsoft released .NET 11 Preview 7 with improvements to the runtime, SDK, C#, ASP.NET Core, MAUI, EF Core. Try it to test your apps. #dotnet #dotnet11 #aspnetcore

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Great tips on what to include in your repo instruction files. Ideally just non-obvious facts that can’t be inferred . #AI #Dev

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Microsoft.Extensions.AI now includes experimental support to route requests by content, retry/failover, and creating custom routing logic. #dotnet #AI

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To secure the NuGet supply chain against the threat of AI attacks, new API keys will be limited to 30 days soon. #NuGet #DotNet

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Did you know you can run a speech-to-text model locally in C# with Microsoft's Foundry Local? It manages the model for you and streams the results. #dotnet #AI

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Give your agents a runtime with Microsoft's Agent Framework Harness in Python and .NET #AI #dotnet #python #software

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Check out this case study on how AT&T used Microsoft Foundry with AMD/NVIDIA GPUs to cut their AI costs. #AI #ML #Azure

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AI speeds coding, only for review, testing, requirements, or deployment can become the new bottlenecks. Our latest blog explains how fix them. #AI #DevOps

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In this episode, host @JTowerMI sat down with @jeffreypalermo, CTO and Chairman at Clear Measure, to talk about what changes in software development once AI writes much of the code, and what doesn't.

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Update your .NET installations to the July 2026 servicing releases (v10.0.10, 9.0.18, and 8.0.29) for security fixes. #dotnet #security

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Build long-running MCP tools with Durable Functions on Azure Functions. This Azure Blog shows how MCP Tasks (RC) adds async task handles. #AzureFunctions #MCP

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Modernize your legacy ASP.NET app to .NET 10 with Microsoft's open-source .NET Modernization for Beginners course #dotnet #Azure #copilot

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Claude is now generally available in Microsoft's Foundry. Your team can now move from agent experimentation to production faster. #Azure #AI

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Use the GitHub Copilot App to modernize your .NET app: AI suggests project file updates, package migrations, and PR-ready edits so you can move to modern .NET faster. #dotnet #GitHubCopilot

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Microsoft .NET team outlines a repeatable diagnostics workflow for production apps — what to collect (metrics, logs, traces, dumps), when to capture traces vs. memory dumps, and how to triage to root cause faster. #dotnet #observability #DevOps

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Planning .NET upgrades? Microsoft lists .NET 8 (LTS) end-of-support in Nov 2026 and .NET 9 (Current) in May 2026 — now’s the time to schedule upgrades, security patching, and compatibility tests. #dotnet #DevOps

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Shipping a .NET app on Windows? Microsoft breaks down packaging options—MSIX vs unpackaged, Visual Studio packaging tools, signing, and Store deployment—so you can pick the right path and avoid deployment pitfalls. #dotnet #MSIX #Windows

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Stop hunting .binlog files — Microsoft explains how to run an MSBuild binlog server so teams can host and serve .binlog files for on‑demand remote diagnostics and faster build troubleshooting. #MSBuild #dotnet

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Build 2026 spotlight: Microsoft is pushing .NET toward faster, cross‑platform apps with tighter Visual Studio + Azure workflows and deeper AI-driven tooling — all to boost dev productivity and delivery. #DotNet #MicrosoftBuild #DevTools

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Trailhead shows how AI can replace bloated SaaS, reclaim data, cut subscription spend, and build composable, automated workflows. Practical roadmap, trade-offs, and real steps to own it. #AI #SaaS #Automation

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Cut your dev backlog with AI. Trailhead shows how to auto-triage issues, improve estimates, and prioritize work so teams ship faster and hit Backlog Zero. Practical playbook from the experts. #AI #DevOps #Agile

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.NET 11 Preview 5 is out — packed with runtime and tooling improvements plus platform tweaks you should test now. Quick read on the highlights and what to validate before upgrading. #dotnet #dotnet11 #dotnetdev

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In new episode of Blue Blazes, Jonathan "J." Tower sits down with fellow Trailhead partner John Waters to talk about how AI has changed every phase of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) at Trailhead, not just code generation.

#software #softwaredevelopment #ai #sdlc

In our new episode of Blue Blazes, J. Tower sits down with fellow Trailhead partner John Waters to talk about how AI has changed every phase of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) at Trailhead, not just code generation.

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#software #ai #sdlc

In this episode, host @JTowerMI sat down with @schneidenbach to talk about the practical realities of integrating AI into modern software applications.

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Explains how Microsoft Agent Framework leverages durable workflows to handle long‑running, stateful agent activities—making orchestration, retries, and persistence much simpler for .NET agents. #dotnet #workflows #AI

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SkiaSharp 4.0 Preview1 is out. Heads-up for .NET devs: it modernizes the Skia bindings with updated APIs and likely breaking changes—test your apps, read the migration notes, and share feedback to help shape the release. #dotnet #SkiaSharp #Graphics

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Want to build autonomous agents in .NET? Microsoft’s Agent Framework breaks down the essential building blocks—tools, memory, planning and orchestration—so you can compose smarter agents faster. #DotNet #AI

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vstest is dropping its Newtonsoft.Json dependency in favor of System.Text.Json. Expect a smaller footprint and fewer assembly conflicts. If your test adapters or extensions use Newtonsoft types, update them now to avoid runtime breaks. #dotnet #JSON

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