Azure Storage Gets Serious About AI Inference: What .NET Developers Need to Know
Azure Storage Gets Serious About AI Inference: What .NET Developers Need to Know TL;DR: Azure Storage is introducing curated, pipeline-optimized experiences to simplify how customers feed data into downstream AI services , with new integrations for RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) agents...
Azure AI Toolkit v0.28.1: Agent Skills Now Cost-Efficient for .NET Developers
Azure AI Toolkit v0.28.1: Agent Skills Now Cost-Efficient for .NET Developers TL;DR: Microsoft shipped major updates to the AI Toolkit for VS Code designed to streamline how you build, test, and deploy AI agents, focusing on aligning with the latest...
Azure Functions Now Supports Model Context Protocol: What This Means for Your AI Agents
Azure Functions Now Supports Model Context Protocol: What This Means for Your AI Agents TL;DR Microsoft has moved its Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Azure Functions to General Availability, signaling a shift toward standardized, identity-secure agentic workflows. For .NET...
OpenAI's Assistants API Sunset: Your Migration Deadline is August 2026
OpenAI’s Assistants API Sunset: Your Migration Deadline is August 2026 TL;DR: OpenAI has announced that its Assistants API will be deprecated on August 26, 2026. The Responses API combines features of OpenAI’s Chat Completions API with the tool-use functionality of...
AI Toolkit for VS Code: The .NET Developer's Fast Track to Production Agents
AI Toolkit for VS Code: The .NET Developer’s Fast Track to Production Agents TL;DR Microsoft released major updates to the AI Toolkit for VS Code designed to streamline how you build, test, and deploy AI agents . The biggest architectural...
AI Gets Practical: What .NET and Azure Developers Need to Know This Week
AI Gets Practical: What .NET and Azure Developers Need to Know This Week TL;DR: Visual Studio 2026 shipped on January 13, 2026 , bringing AI deeply integrated into your workflow. NET 10 is the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and...
AI Toolkit for VS Code Gets a January 2026 Overhaul: What .NET Developers Need to Know
AI Toolkit for VS Code Gets a January 2026 Overhaul: What .NET Developers Need to Know TL;DR Microsoft shipped a major AI Toolkit update for VS Code designed to streamline building, testing, and deploying AI agents, with focus on GitHub...
GPT-5.2 Lands in Azure Government: What .NET Developers Need to Know
GPT-5.2 Lands in Azure Government: What .NET Developers Need to Know TL;DR GPT-5.2, Azure OpenAI’s newest frontier reasoning model, is available in Microsoft Azure for U.S. Government Secret and Top Secret cloud environments. If you’re shipping regulated workloads on .NET...
Azure OpenAI's Realtime API with WebRTC: Building Low-Latency Voice Agents in .NET
Azure OpenAI’s Realtime API with WebRTC: Building Low-Latency Voice Agents in .NET TL;DR OpenAI’s GPT RealTime and Audio models are now generally available on Azure AI Foundry, with WebRTC support enabling real-time audio streaming and low-latency interactions . This means...
OpenAI's Assistants API Deprecation: What .NET & Azure Developers Need to Know
OpenAI’s Assistants API Deprecation: What .NET & Azure Developers Need to Know TL;DR: OpenAI has announced that its Assistants API will be deprecated on August 26, 2026. If you’re building agents on OpenAI’s platform directly, you’ll need to migrate to...