Azure Functions Is Now Your MCP Server: What the GA Release Means for .NET AI Agents
Azure Functions Is Now Your MCP Server: What the GA Release Means for .NET AI Agents TL;DR: Azure Functions’ support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has reached General Availability. For .NET engineers building AI agents on Azure, this means...
GPT-5.4 Is Now GA in Microsoft Foundry: What It Means for Your .NET and Azure AI Apps
GPT-5.4 Is Now GA in Microsoft Foundry: What It Means for Your .NET and Azure AI Apps **Published: March 9, 2026 ~800 words** TL;DR OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry, designed to help organizations move from planning...
AI on .NET & Azure: Weekly Roundup — Week of March 8, 2026
AI on .NET & Azure: Weekly Roundup — Week of March 8, 2026 Your Sunday digest of the AI stories that matter most to .NET and Azure engineers, plus a look at the week ahead. TL;DR ⚠️ Action required now:...
Azure Functions Goes Full MCP: Build AI-Tool Servers in .NET Without the Boilerplate
Azure Functions Goes Full MCP: Build AI-Tool Servers in .NET Without the Boilerplate Published: March 7, 2026 Audience: .NET & Azure developers shipping AI-powered applications TL;DR Microsoft’s Azure Functions MCP extension has reached General Availability, and a brand-new MCP App...
gpt-4o Retires March 31 on Azure Foundry: What Every .NET Engineer Shipping AI Must Do This Weekend
gpt-4o Retires March 31 on Azure Foundry: What Every .NET Engineer Shipping AI Must Do This Weekend TL;DR — Two specific versions of gpt-4o are being retired in Azure AI Foundry on March 31, 2026 — 25 days from today....
Azure Functions MCP Support Is GA — And Your .NET Agent Tools Just Got a Real Home
Azure Functions MCP Support Is GA — And Your .NET Agent Tools Just Got a Real Home Published: March 5, 2026 TL;DR Microsoft’s Azure Functions support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has reached General Availability, and it’s the cleanest...
The Azure OpenAI Responses API Is the Stateful Agent Surface .NET Developers Have Been Waiting For
The Azure OpenAI Responses API Is the Stateful Agent Surface .NET Developers Have Been Waiting For Published: March 4, 2026 · Reading time: ~7 min TL;DR The Azure OpenAI Responses API is a new stateful API that brings together the...
Microsoft Agent Framework Hits Release Candidate: What .NET Engineers Need to Know Right Now
Microsoft Agent Framework Hits Release Candidate: What .NET Engineers Need to Know Right Now March 3, 2026 · ~800 words TL;DR Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. This...
GPT-5.3-Codex, GPT-Realtime-1.5, and GPT-Audio-1.5 Just Landed in Azure AI Foundry — Here's What .NET Engineers Need to Know
GPT-5.3-Codex, GPT-Realtime-1.5, and GPT-Audio-1.5 Just Landed in Azure AI Foundry — Here’s What .NET Engineers Need to Know TL;DR: Three new OpenAI models rolled out in Microsoft Foundry this week. GPT-5.3-Codex unifies frontier coding and reasoning into one model purpose-built...
Azure & AI Weekly Roundup: New Voice Models, Foundry SDK Shakeups, MCP Everywhere, and Deprecation Clocks Ticking (Week of March 1, 2026)
Azure & AI Weekly Roundup: New Voice Models, Foundry SDK Shakeups, MCP Everywhere, and Deprecation Clocks Ticking (Week of March 1, 2026) Your Sunday morning read — grab a coffee, this one has deadlines in it. TL;DR GPT-Realtime-1.5 & GPT-Audio-1.5...