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5 Copilot Chat Prompts .NET Devs Should Steal Today

Discover 5 practical GitHub Copilot Chat prompts to boost .NET development productivity, from code optimization to security reviews.
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.NET Conf 2025 - Announcing the Call for Content

The .NET Conf 2025 Call for Content is now open! Join us November 11-13 for the premier .NET virtual event celebrating .NET 10. Submit your session proposal by August 31st and share your .NET expertise with developers worldwide.
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Aug 11, 2025
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Announcing GA of Bicep templates support for Microsoft Entra ID resources

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Dan Kershaw
We’re thrilled to announce that Bicep templates for Microsoft Entra ID resources is generally available from July 29th, 2025. Bicep templates bring declarative infrastructure as code (IaC) capabilities to Microsoft Graph resources. This new capability will initially be available for...
Microsoft Entra Identity Platform
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Aug 11, 2025
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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 1: Concept art

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Raymond Chen
Following an object as it moves.
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Aug 8, 2025
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Under what conditions could a Read­File or Write­File fail to transfer all of the bytes, and how do I detect that?

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Raymond Chen
If there is not enough data to read, or not room to write.
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Aug 7, 2025
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July 2025 (version 1.103)

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Visual Studio Code Team
Learn what is new in the Visual Studio Code July 2025 Release (1.103) Read the full article
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Aug 7, 2025
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Python in Visual Studio Code - August 2025 Release

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Courtney Webster
The August 2025 release includes Python shell integration support for Python 3.13+, Python Environments extension improvements, enhanced terminal suggestions with documentation, and more!
Microsoft for Python Developers Blog
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Aug 7, 2025
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The Complete Playwright End-to-End Story, Tools, AI, and Real-World Workflows

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Debbie O'Brien
1. Introduction End-to-end testing has evolved dramatically, and Playwright stands at the forefront. Playwright offers a full ecosystem empowering developers to write, debug, and maintain tests with speed and reliability. From its powerful test runner to rich developer tools like...
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Aug 7, 2025
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Go 1.24.6-1 and 1.23.12-1 Microsoft builds now available

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Davis Goodin
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download.
Microsoft for Go Developers
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Aug 7, 2025
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How can I detect that Windows is running in S-Mode?

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Raymond Chen
Check the code integrity policy.
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Aug 7, 2025
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Learnings from External Data Handling

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Ashley Costigane
This blog post discusses the challenges and solutions encountered by the ISE team at Microsoft while making a distributed system production-ready. It focuses on issues including slow processing speeds and out-of-memory exceptions, and provides insights into the methods used to address these problems.
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