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2026 (6)

March (1)

dotnet: Extend your coding agent with .NET Skills

.NET

2026-03-09

Microsoft introduced the dotnet/skills repository, describing a set of .NET “agent skills” intended to extend coding agents and improve agent-driven development workflows.

February (3)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for late-February 2026

Azure Updates

2026-02-25

Late-February 2026 Azure SQL updates add a database object search feature to the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Unified tooling in the AKS MCP server

Azure Updates

2026-02-18

AKS MCP Server adds unified tooling in public preview to reduce tool/context overhead when managing AKS MCP servers. Two new tools are introduced: call_az and call_kubectl.

ai: Building an AI Skills Executor in .NET: Bringing Anthropic’s Agent Pattern to the Microsoft Ecosystem

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-02-06

Guest post outlining how to implement an “AI Skills Executor” in .NET using Azure OpenAI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) C# SDK to replicate Anthropic-style agent patterns.

January (2)

github: GitHub MCP Server: New Projects tools, OAuth scope filtering, and new features

GitHub

2026-01-28

GitHub released the MCP Server, adding improved management for GitHub Projects with more efficient use of the context window, automatic filtering of tools based on a token's OAuth scopes/permissions, and additional new features and Projects-focused tools.

dotnet: How We Synchronize .NET’s Virtual Monorepo

.NET

2026-01-12

A technical deep dive describing how the .NET team keeps product repositories synchronized with a Virtual Monolithic Repository. It explains the custom two-way synchronization algorithm and the engineering challenges encountered while maintaining consistency across many repositories.

2025 (6)

December (1)

devops+ai: 🔥Migrating VeraResearch to First-Class MCP Tool Support in Strands🔥

Let's do DevOps

2025-12-16

The post announces migrating VeraResearch into first-class MCP tool support inside Strands, emphasizing a shift to let teams 'manage the complexity' by providing native, supported tooling and integrations that simplify workflows and reduce accidental overhead.

November (2)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Oracle to PostgreSQL migration tooling in Visual Studio Code

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Microsoft announced a public preview of Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration tooling built into the Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. The tool aims to make migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL simpler and faster by providing conversion support directly inside VS Code.

dotnet: Introducing F# 10

.NET

2025-11-17

The blog post announces F# 10, highlighting new language features, performance improvements, and tooling enhancements that ship with .NET 10.

October (3)

devops+ai: 🔥Fixing MCP Tool Name Collisions When Using Multiple MCP Servers

Let's do DevOps

2025-10-28

The article explains why multiple MCP servers often all register a tool named "search", causing name collisions when a client aggregates tools from more than one server, and gives short-term and long-term fixes (namespacing, unique IDs, client-side resolution changes, or upstream fixes).

dotnet: Upgrading to Microsoft Agent Framework in Your .NET AI Chat App

.NET

2025-10-23

This DevBlogs post provides a step-by-step guide to upgrading a .NET AI chat app to the Microsoft Agent Framework to improve architecture, enable better tool integration, and add intelligent reasoning features.

dotnet: Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview): Making AI Agents Simple for Every Developer

.NET

2025-10-01

Microsoft announced the Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview), a unified solution for creating, orchestrating, hosting, and observing AI agents in the .NET ecosystem to help developers ship production AI agents faster.