Your AI agent can query your database without writing a single line of SQL. 烙 Bob Ward shows how: msft.it/6014asYfj

🧠 C++/WinRT access specifiers hit differently.

Implemented interface = public 🌎
- public = module-internal 📦
- protected = derived types
- private = same class 🔐

The Old New Thing explains why.

Read 👇
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Semantic search is powerful, but sometimes exact keywords are still the answer. Anna Hoffman tackles why the real answer might be a hybrid of both: msft.it/6018asi6k

What if you could group unrelated types without an inheritance hierarchy? Dustin Campbell and Mads Torgersen explore C# unions: msft.it/6011as6Dv

One YOLO deploy to prod is all it takes. Drew Skwiers-Koballa has a safer way: msft.it/6018aSh2G

👀 What happens when Security Tool A hooks a system function… then Security Tool B hooks a function Tool A depends on?
💥 Detours meet detours. 🔐 Quarantine meets interference. 🧩 Debugging gets spicy.
Read 👉 msft.it/6017aShSb

Code as an asset, not an artifact. AI writes it fast, but future you maintains it. That's exactly what Mads Kristensen gets into: msft.it/6014aShp6

Give AI tools, not just prompts. Kayla Cinnamon and James Montemagno build a custom tool the model can call instead of guessing. See it in action: msft.it/6012aSChC

AI found a 90% optimization. It still needed an engineer's judgment call. Mark Downie and Sireesha Pisipati get into it.

See how: msft.it/6010aSAjg

🤯 How can an undefined CPU opcode… have operands?
Welcome to x86 history. 🧠⚙️

0F FF could be decoded + parse operands before 💥 invalid opcode. Then backward compatibility helped keep PADDQ out of its natural slot.

CPU archaeology awaits. 🏺
Read 👉 msft.it/6017aSAEf

💥 Your CPU just hit code that should never execute. But was it int 3 or ud2? 👀
int 3 → “there’s no code here” ud2 → “you reached an unreachable/undefined path” 😬
Same crashy vibes. Very different debugging clues. 🧠⚙️
👉 msft.it/6012aSk1G

Anna Hoffman argues your database belongs in source control, just like your application code: msft.it/6010aSXvO

Your browser just became a bouncer for sketchy requests. Daniel Roth shows how: msft.it/6014aSX94

SPA feel, zero WebAssembly. Daniel Roth pulls it off: msft.it/6011aSrLR

That's semantic search. Yo-Lei Chen breaks down how SQL Server pulls it off: msft.it/6017aSrlL

Your VS Subscription includes a monthly Azure credit, exclusive Dev/Test pricing, and Azure training via Pluralsight or Cloud Academy. See what's included: msft.it/6013aSr6U

40TB restored in 7 minutes. Bob Ward explains: msft.it/6016aSRYw

Yes, this is WinForms. Klaus Loeffelman shows the .NET 11 preview: msft.it/6012aoirs

🔥 Think hot-patching started recently? Think again.
Windows on Itanium shipped with a surprisingly elegant hot-patching design that made live updates much simpler than you'd expect. ⚙️🤯

A fascinating deep dive into OS and CPU architecture history.
📖 msft.it/6011aojtF

What if your app never had to move data around just to use AI? Anna Hoffman and Bob Ward get into what it looks like when AI runs right inside the database engine. See how: msft.it/6012aoDDj

Stop making your AI agent rediscover your best practices. James Montemagno explains: msft.it/6013ao8F9

🩹💻 Hot patching sounds simple... until CPU architecture gets involved.
Why did Windows support hot patching on some architectures but not 32-bit ARM or MIPS? 🤔
A fascinating look at instruction sets, patchability, and OS design.
📖 Read:msft.it/6018ao85g
v #SystemsProgramming

Unnecessary ToList()/ToArray() calls cost performance. Jason Bock explains: msft.it/6013ao8Gb

The fastest way to modernize isn't asking AI to rewrite everything, it's having a plan first. Jon Galloway digs into why: msft.it/6012aoBIn

🧠 C++ trivia that isn't trivia:
Function-local static variables initialize exactly once. ⚙️
But how do compilers and runtimes guarantee that, especially with multiple threads? 🤔
🚀 Read the deep dive: msft.it/6012aWCnK
#cpp #cplusplus #systemsprogramming #devtools

💡☁️ If Azure budget approval wasn't required... what would you build?
AI agents? RAG apps? Massive experiments? 🚀🧠

Turn ideas into deployed solutions faster and spend more time coding, less time negotiating resources.
📖 Read: What Would You Build in Azure If You Didn’t Have st?
#Azure #AI #Cloud #DevLife

Would you trust one AI prompt to migrate your codebase? Jason Bock tackles why that's not enough: msft.it/6013aW28t

Your AI agent has a context budget. Too much can make it less effective. Kayla Cinnamon gets into managing it: msft.it/6015aWLp3

Gemini 4 Argon is now available in Visual Studio. Early testing showed stronger coding results than previous Gemini models, with thorough validation and edge-case testing before completing tasks. Choose it from the Copilot Chat model picker and give it a try.

Details: msft.it/6018as8Ra
#VisualStudio #GitHubCopilot

🕵️‍♂️💥 Crash dump says add byte ptr [eax], al... which really means: "you're executing zeroes." 😅

Episode 3 of Raymond Chen’s debugging mystery traces a corrupted detour, bogus instructions, and suspicious executable memory. 🔍⚙️

📖 Read: msft.it/6017aWL1N
#Windows #Debugging #WinDbg

The best results with AI don't start with code, they start with the planning and conversations about what to build and how. Sebastian Hernandez and Wendy Breiding get into why that beats a one-shot AI attempt every time: msft.it/6017aWR2D

Searching every row works, until you have millions of them. Anna Hoffman gets into what changes: msft.it/6018aWRfr

Classic extension methods were scaffolding. Dustin Campbell and Mads Torgersen dig into C#'s new extension members feature: msft.it/6010aWRUq

⚙️ C++ deep dive!
Should lazy initialization use std::call_once or std::async(std::launch::deferred)? 🤔
Memory footprint, shared futures, thread-safety, exception behavior, and hidden runtime costs all come into play. 🚀

📖 Read: msft.it/6010aWR1E

Skills = Brain. MCP = Hands. Simona Liao and Leah Tran get into how the two need to work together for AI agents: msft.it/6017aWuoZ

Reading your code is one thing, understanding your running app is another. Yeojun Han digs into AI chat vs. an AI debugger: msft.it/6016aY5UY

⚡C++ gotcha alert!

What happens when initialization throws? 🤔

Raymond Chen compares magic statics, std::call_once, and std::async, exposing subtle differences in retry and exception behavior that can impact reliability. 🧵⚙️

📖 Read: msft.it/6010aYjvp

Visual Studio has a hidden mode for when you just want to focus on code. Marco Peyrot Carrion knows where to find it.

Watch the reveal: msft.it/6012aYjM8

🤖 Bring Your Own Model meets Agent Mode in Visual Studio! 🚀

Use AI from Foundry, OpenAI, Anthropic, or Ollama, fix vulnerable NuGet packages with Copilot 🔐, explore PRs via Git Agent 📝, and debug Podman containers 🐳.

📖 Read more: msft.it/6012aYbhy

Frozen UI? Not today. Daniel Roth keeps Blazor snappy: msft.it/6016aYweA

Measure twice, change once. 📏 Optimizing code without a baseline is just code massaging. Mark Downie and Sireesha Pisipati dive into this in this clip from VSLive! MSHQ.

Catch the rest here: msft.it/6017aYZ9R

Reliable AI apps stop treating model output as plain text. Jon Galloway shows why in this clip from VSLive! MSHQ.

Catch the rest here: msft.it/6013aYZOU

🛠️ VS Code + CMake just got smoother.

CMake Tools 1.24 adds editor-based test run/debug, preset-aware cache overrides, smarter target builds, and reliability improvements that reduce inner-loop friction. ⚡

Read the release: 🔗 msft.it/6016ac0OO

Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available in Visual Studio.

Anthropic's lightweight model is designed for fast, high-volume work like subagents, quick edits, and terminal tasks. Select it from the model picker in Copilot Chat to get started.

Learn more: msft.it/6018aotnA
pilot #AI

⏱️ What's the largest legal FILETIME? Technically: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. Practically? 😬 It's complicated.

Raymond Chen explores sentinel values, overflow hazards, timer APIs, and why the "max" timestamp can break when it escapes your code. 🤯

📖 Read: msft.it/6014acL5n

You can't scale your way out of a bad query. Bob Ward explains: msft.it/6012acLKn

Copilot just turned app code into a SQL schema, live. Yo-Lei Chen shows how: msft.it/6014acOx2

⚡ Copilot CLI gets a serious C++ upgrade.

Whole Codebase Indexing creates a persistent symbol graph across your repo, enabling faster navigation, smarter impact analysis, and better parallel-agent workflows without constant reparsing. 🤖💨

👉 Read: msft.it/6012acO1p

Modernizing WinForms doesn't mean editing every file. Klaus Loeffelman explains: msft.it/6017ac3v1

Back it up with data. Jason Bock's rule for performance calls: msft.it/6018acz1a

💥 Prod app hanging? Don't guess... dump. 🧵🔍
Learn how to capture a memory dump, inspect Parallel Stacks in Visual Studio, spot ThreadPool saturation, and use GitHub Copilot to accelerate root-cause analysis. 🤖⚙️
Read: msft.it/6019acKND

Skills on demand, a faster AI agent. James Montemagno explains: msft.it/6015acKcx

Prompt injection doesn't have to come from the prompt. Bob Ward and Anna Hoffman explain: msft.it/6010acK8K

The latest Microsoft news in 3 minutes.
Bring Your Own Model moved into preview in Visual Studio, Microsoft Foundry's model router expanded its regions and refreshed its model pool, and #dotNETConf 2026 has a date!
🎥 msft.it/6014acJqa