Foundry Agent Service Goes GA: What .NET and Azure Developers Need to Ship Production Agents Today
TL;DR Microsoft’s next-generation Foundry Agent Service is now generally available, bringing production-grade SDKs for .NET (and Python, JavaScript, Java), a Responses API-compatible runtime, end-to-end private networking, built-in evaluations, and an optional Voice Live layer—all under one roof. If you’ve been...
.NET Aspire 13.2 Ships an Agent-Native CLI — and It Changes How You Build Distributed AI Apps
TL;DR: Aspire 13.2 dropped on March 23, 2026, and its headline feature isn’t just a new integration — it’s a rethought CLI purpose-built for AI coding agents. If you’re shipping agentic .NET workloads on Azure, this release gives your coding...
AI Toolkit for VS Code v0.32.0: The March 2026 Update That Unifies Your Agent Development Workflow
TL;DR The March 2026 release of AI Toolkit for VS Code (v0.32.0) merges the Microsoft Foundry sidebar directly into the toolkit, adds a unified Create Agent View, wires agent code generation through the open-source Foundry skill used by GitHub Copilot...
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...