AI on .NET & Azure: Weekly Roundup — Week of March 22, 2026
TL;DR — It was a big week in the Microsoft AI stack. GitHub Copilot gained GPT-5.4 mini, the MCP C# SDK hit v1.0, Microsoft Agent Framework is sprinting toward GA, Azure is about to light up NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72...
Foundry Agent Service Is GA: What .NET and Azure Developers Need to Ship Agents in Production
TL;DR — Microsoft declared the next-generation Foundry Agent Service generally available this week, dropping alongside the NVIDIA GTC announcements (March 16–21, 2026). You get a Responses-API-compatible runtime, BYO-VNet private networking all the way to your tools, four MCP auth modes,...
Foundry Agent Service Goes GA: What .NET and Azure Engineers Need to Ship Production AI Agents Now
TL;DR: As of this week (March 16–17, 2026), Microsoft’s next-generation Foundry Agent Service and its Observability Control Plane are generally available. If you’ve been waiting for a stable, enterprise-grade target before committing your agent architecture to Azure, the wait is...
Foundry Agent Service Goes GA: What the March 2026 Production Upgrade Means for Your .NET Agent Workloads
TL;DR: Microsoft dropped the GA of the next-generation Foundry Agent Service at NVIDIA GTC this week, bringing production-ready SDKs (including .NET), private-network-only deployments, a unified evaluation pipeline, and Voice Live API into the mix — all on a Responses API–based...
Foundry Agent Service Is GA: What .NET and Azure Engineers Need to Ship Production AI Agents Today
TL;DR — On March 16, 2026, Microsoft promoted Foundry Agent Service to General Availability at NVIDIA GTC. The GA release brings a Responses-API-compatible runtime, end-to-end private networking (BYO VNet), expanded MCP authentication, production-grade evaluations piped into Azure Monitor, and production-ready...
AI Toolkit for VS Code v0.32.0: Your New Production Agent Command Center
TL;DR Microsoft shipped AI Toolkit for VS Code v0.32.0 on March 17, 2026 — the freshest ink on the page. It unifies agent creation, MCP tool-call approval, Foundry workspace scaffolding, and GitHub Copilot-powered evaluations into a single sidebar. Pair that...
Microsoft Agent 365 GA Is Coming: What .NET and Azure Developers Need to Know Now
TL;DR: On March 9, 2026, Microsoft announced that Agent 365 — a centralized control plane for AI agents — will reach General Availability on May 1, 2026, priced at $15/user/month. It ships alongside Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 3 and a...
AI on Azure & .NET: Weekly Roundup — Week of March 15, 2026
TL;DR: GPT-5.4 lands in Microsoft Foundry with built-in computer-use, Agent 365 gets a GA date and a price tag, the Microsoft Agent Framework hits Release Candidate for .NET and Python, old GPT-4o model versions sunset on March 31, and the...
Azure’s new agentic modernization push: what it means for .NET and Azure engineers
TL;DR Microsoft is doubling down on agentic AI for application modernization on Azure, positioning AI agents as first‑class helpers that understand telemetry, dependencies, and APIs—not just chat prompts. For .NET and Azure engineers, this translates into faster modernization planning, tighter...
`@modernize-dotnet` Is Everywhere Now: What the New GitHub Copilot Agent Means for Your .NET Stack
TL;DR: As of mid-March 2026, the modernize-dotnet GitHub Copilot agent is no longer just a Visual Studio feature. It now runs inside VS Code, the GitHub Copilot CLI, and directly on GitHub.com — following a structured assess → plan →...