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The success of AI-powered apps and agents hinges not only on cutting edge models and AI platforms, but on the developers who are chartered with designing innovative services that are secure, scalable, and grounded in the right knowledge. The inaugural Azure Dev Summit on October 13-16, 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal is the chance for you to dive into the...

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has quickly established itself as the go-to standard for seamlessly connecting AI agents with a variety of external tools and services. In just a few months, it has become a prominent topic at developer events and forums, gaining adoption from companies of all sizes. To meet the rapid pace of advancements, we ran ...

MCP has evolved significantly beyond its original goal of "providing context to LLMs." With recent enhancements including resumable streams, elicitation, sampling, and notifications (progress and resources), MCP now provides a robust foundation for building complex agent-to-agent communication systems. In this article, you'll learn: ...

We've been talking a lot about the Model Context Protocol (MCP) lately, including recent blog posts and sessions at Microsoft Build. In this post, I'd like to share some top tips for how you can use MCP servers we've been building to improve your developer productivity. What's the experience like? If you've never used an MCP server, imagine cha...

Today we're excited to announce the launch of the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo! The Awesome Copilot repo is a community-driven resource with custom instructions, reusable prompts, and custom chat modes that helps you get consistent AI assistance. In other words, Awesome Copilot helps you get the most out of GitHub Copilot by let...

Get ready for two days of deep technical insight, community connection, and hands-on learning at MCP Dev Days, a virtual event dedicated to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the emerging standard that bridges AI models and the tools they rely on. You can watch MCP Dev Days by registering on our event page: https://aka.ms/mcpdevdays. From th...

In today's fast-paced digital world, keeping the Visual Studio Marketplace secure and trustworthy is extremely important. We know how crucial it is to protect your extensions, so we're always working on new ways to keep things safe. We'd like to share an update on the existing safeguards and upcoming investments that ensure VS Marketplace remain...

For developers building in the field of AI, the industry moves so quickly that we often prioritise speed and execution over everything else. To keep up with the latest changes, many developers and enterprises are turning to open-source AI tools. One of the most popular tools today is LangChain, an open-source framework for building AI applications....

What if your dev tools could take the first pass at a feature, file a bug report, propose a fix—and deploy it? With Agentic DevOps and GitHub Copilot, they can. Here's how agents will reshape every step of the software development lifecycle.