Microsoft AI Foundry Blog
2026-11-05
October 2026 Microsoft Foundry updates include a Copilot harness preview, general availability for browser automation and hosted-agent resilience, a Decisions API, and SDK updates with chapter-linked Handoff demos. The post also points readers to Microsoft Ignite viewing on November 17-20.
.NET
2026-10-13
The .NET 11 Release Candidate 2 release is available. It includes improvements across libraries, runtime, SDK, MSBuild, NuGet, F#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Windows Forms.
2026-09-25
Microsoft released a first-class .NET SDK for the AG-UI protocol. It lets .NET services expose and consume interoperable agent endpoints through Microsoft.Extensions.AI.
2026-09-09
Microsoft Foundry’s July and August 2026 update adds stable Hosted Agent and Toolbox SDK paths, Claude tools support on Azure-hosted deployments, and Model Router updates. It also notes local inference improvements and SDK migration items to review before upgrading.
2026-09-08
The .NET 11 Release Candidate 1 is now available. The release includes updates across libraries, runtime, SDK, MSBuild, NuGet, C#, F#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Windows Forms.