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Copilot Memories

Are you wasting time reviewing code for nits on code standards, project preferences, or important contribution guidelines? We know the pain. It’s all too easy for best practices and those tiny but critical team details to slip through the cracks, resulting in inconsistencies,...
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How to Build Android Widgets with .NET MAUI

Build interactive Android widgets with .NET MAUI using RemoteViews, intents, and shared data.
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Jan 19, 2026
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Azure Boards additional field filters (private preview)

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Dan Hellem
We’re introducing a limited private preview that allows you to add additional fields as filters on backlog and Kanban boards. This long-requested feature helps teams tailor their views, focus on the work that matters most, and provide feedback as we iterate toward general availability.
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Jan 19, 2026
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What was the secret sauce that allows for a faster restart of Windows 95 if you hold the shift key?

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Raymond Chen
An old flag from 16-bit Windows.
The Old New Thing
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Jan 18, 2026
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🚀React Native Windows v0.81 is here!!

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Ramya Oruganti
App developers require performance, stability, and cross-platform consistency such as fast startups, smooth UI, and seamless code sharing across Windows, Android, and iOS as these factors directly impact user experience, development efficiency, and business outcomes. High performance and...
React Native
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Jan 16, 2026
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What's new with Azure Repos?

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Dan Hellem
We thought it was a good time to check in and highlight some of the work happening in Azure Repos. In this post, we’ve covered several recent improvements, along with a preview of features that are coming soon. To stay up to date, be sure to visit the Azure DevOps Roadmap. These...
Azure DevOps Blog
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Jan 16, 2026
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How can I get the tab index number from a dialog box control?

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Raymond Chen
The tab index number is an authoring concept, not a runtime concept.
The Old New Thing
"Building Your First Serverless HTTP API on Azure with Azure Functions & FastAPI
Jan 16, 2026
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Part 1: Building Your First Serverless HTTP API on Azure with Azure Functions & FastAPI

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Richa Gaur
Introduction  This post is Part 1 of the series Serverless Application Development with Azure Functions and Azure Cosmos DB, where we explore how to build end-to-end serverless applications using Azure Functions for compute and Azure Cosmos DB for storage. Together, these services...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
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Jan 16, 2026
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Evaluate Small Language Model Function Calling using the Azure AI Evaluation SDK

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Chinedum Echeta
This blog details how the Azure AI Evaluation SDK can be used to assess the performance of a small language model for function calling, such as Phi-4-mini-instruct, and view the results in Microsoft Foundry.
ISE Developer Blog
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Jan 15, 2026
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Announcing GPT-5.2 Availability in Azure for U.S. Government Secret and Top Secret Clouds

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Douglas Phillips
Today, we are excited to announce that 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. This release marks another significant milestone in our mission to bring cutting edge AI...
Azure Government
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Jan 15, 2026
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When programs assume that the system will never change, episode 4: Stealing strings

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Raymond Chen
The strings are an implementation detail.
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