Content by Microsoft Developer (297)

Microsoft Developer explains practical ALM patterns for taking Copilot Studio agents from experimentation to production, focusing on repeatable deployments, environment isolation, and governance-friendly configuration using solutions, environment variables, and connection references.

Microsoft Developer presents a session on building agentic user interfaces across Copilot and the Power Platform, with demos that connect Copilot and Power Apps and a look at newly released MCP app UI capabilities for creating custom, purpose-built interfaces.

Microsoft Developer kicks off the Agent Academy Hackathon, explaining how to participate and what kinds of AI agents you can build with Copilot Studio, along with links to the Agent Academy learning path and hackathon registration.

Microsoft Developer explains why AI agents that look good in demos can fail in production, and outlines a practical approach to testing agents built with Microsoft Copilot Studio—covering prompts, grounding, actions, and orchestration under real user behavior.

Microsoft Developer walks through building employee experience AI agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio, showing how to connect knowledge grounding with real workflows using MCP-based integrations and Power Platform automation across several practical workplace scenarios.

Microsoft Developer introduces agent flows in Microsoft Copilot Studio, focusing on how to build agentic automations that stay reliable for business-critical processes by combining deterministic, structured steps with AI-driven judgment where it’s needed.

Microsoft Developer hosts Agent Academy Live, a one-day virtual event focused on building production-ready AI agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio, with practical sessions on real-world agent patterns, governance, and architecture, followed by a hands-on hackathon.

Microsoft Developer recaps key themes from Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026, focusing on what engineers are doing in production to scale reliably, keep costs under control, and support AI-driven workloads—especially vector search and modern search patterns built into Cosmos DB.

Microsoft Developer demonstrates how to connect GitHub Copilot to the Unity Editor using Model Context Protocol (MCP), then uses prompts to build a playable Unity prototype with C#/.NET. The video focuses on setup, permissions, agents/skills, debugging common workflow issues, and practical best practices for AI-assisted game development.

Microsoft Developer shares a Data Exposed episode where Anna and Makena walk through practical SSMS 22 customizations—covering visual tweaks (dark theme, fonts, NULL coloring) and workflow improvements (tab layout, Object Explorer grouping, and results grid save behavior) to make day-to-day SQL work smoother.

Microsoft Developer introduces Quest to Compile, a new show where two game-dev siblings explore modern game development in the .NET ecosystem, from fundamentals like gameplay code and debugging to practical workflows like Git version control and AI-assisted coding with GitHub Copilot.

Microsoft Developer walks through how Containerization Assist integrates with the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) VS Code extension to help developers containerize applications and generate Kubernetes-ready build and deployment assets, with a demo that also covers automated pipeline creation and contribution paths for the open-source tooling.

Microsoft Developer walks through how Azure Arc can be used to simplify migrating SQL Server databases from on-premises environments to Azure, including a demo-driven look at the end-to-end migration process and the key concepts behind Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server migrations.

Microsoft Developer shares a short sponsor session from Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 where Andrew Ruffin (AMD) explains how AMD EPYC hardware impacts Azure Cosmos DB performance, including performance-per-dollar claims and how lower per-request cost can translate into better RU efficiency and scaling.

Microsoft Developer hosts a Cosmos DB Conf 2026 session where Sergiy Smyrnov demonstrates migrating an AdventureWorks-based ASP.NET/EF Core app from a relational database to Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, using GitHub Copilot and Cosmos DB Agent Kit prompts to plan the move and rewrite the data layer.

Microsoft Developer hosts James Codella’s deep dive into Azure Cosmos DB querying and indexing, focusing on how partition routing and index choices affect performance and RU cost, with practical guidance on SQL features, index types, and tuning high-RU queries.

Microsoft Developer shares Yohan Lasorsa’s session on why “vector search by default” often fails in RAG, and how to improve retrieval quality by using agentic RAG with Azure Cosmos DB hybrid search (vector + full-text) so an AI agent fetches the right context when it actually needs it.

Microsoft Developer hosts Sid Anand sharing practical Azure Cosmos DB best practices, using a Spacely Sprockets e-commerce scenario to discuss patterns for global distribution, high availability, low-latency access, and cost-efficient design.

Microsoft Developer hosts Eric Boyd explaining how to use Azure Cosmos DB as a coordination mechanism for distributed workflows, covering lock/lease and leader-style patterns, saga orchestration for long-running work, and the production tradeoffs around retries, contention, hotspots, and multi-region consistency.

Microsoft Developer shares Mick Feller’s customer story on how Office Depot (ODP Corporation) built a homegrown enterprise AI “Personal Assistant” backed by Azure Cosmos DB, focusing on time-series + HR profile context, autoscale-driven growth, and cost/performance control.

Microsoft Developer features Sajeetharan Sinnathurai explaining how to set up a practical Azure Cosmos DB development environment (VS Code, emulator, testing, and CI/CD considerations) and how to use AI coding assistants more effectively by providing schema context and better prompts.

Microsoft Developer features Anurag Dutt explaining how to diagnose and fix rising Azure Cosmos DB RU costs and unstable performance using platform metrics, diagnostics, and query insights, then applying targeted changes like partitioning, query, indexing, and throughput adjustments.

Microsoft Developer hosts a session where Theo van Kraay previews MultiCloudDB for Java, a portable SDK aimed at running the same CRUD and query code across Azure Cosmos DB, Amazon DynamoDB, and Google Cloud Spanner without code changes.

Microsoft Developer hosts Justine Cocchi explaining how Azure Cosmos DB Change Feed works and how to run it reliably in production, including consumption models, partitioning and lease management, plus debugging/monitoring patterns to diagnose lag and recover from common failure modes at scale.

Microsoft Developer hosts Tural Suleymani explaining how to build and scale event-driven microservices using Azure Cosmos DB Change Feed for domain events, including partitioning choices, ordering/consistency trade-offs, and a repeatable end-to-end demo with observability and failure handling.

Microsoft Developer features Hasan Savran explaining the key data modeling decisions for Azure Cosmos DB, focusing on partition key selection, schema tradeoffs, estimating storage and scaling needs, and handling cross-partition queries to avoid costly redesigns later.

Microsoft Developer shares a keynote interview with Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on how AI agents change app design, why serverless compute plus serverless data matters, and what Azure Cosmos DB’s RU-based query economics look like as tokens and agent-driven workloads grow.

Microsoft Developer shares practical strategies for migrating data into Azure SQL Database—from 1 GB to 700+ GB—while aiming for little to no downtime, including a demo segment plus tips and guidance on getting started.

Microsoft Developer shares a short clip featuring Shireesh Thota (CVP, Azure Databases) discussing the idea of a “unified intelligence layer” and avoiding misleading “faster” claims in the context of Azure database performance and cost considerations.

Microsoft Developer shares John Maeda’s SXSW tip for getting better results from AI agents: keep a smaller, working replica of your app that fits within a model’s context window so you can iterate on prompts and changes more effectively.

Microsoft Developer shares John Maeda’s SXSW tip on using a “tuned harness” to keep AI models on track, from prompting through tool calling, and points to tools like GitHub Copilot CLI (and the Copilot SDK) to help turn interesting outputs into something reliably useful.

Microsoft Developer hosts a discussion where Justin Garrett and Azure MVP Magnus Mårtensson cover enterprise observability in Azure using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, plus how Azure Copilot can speed up investigations by turning natural language into KQL and recommending next steps.

Microsoft Developer shows how the latest SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) release lets you use GitHub Copilot Chat against the results pane—asking questions about execution plans, the Messages tab, and the results grid directly from the chat window.

Microsoft Developer introduces the Microsoft Foundry Toolkit for VS Code and what it’s meant to help with: exploring models, building and shipping production agents, and optimizing performance for edge hardware.

Microsoft Developer presents an architecture-focused video on building a vendor onboarding AI agent with Copilot Studio, showing how AI Builder, Dataverse, and Power Automate can work together for document validation, risk scoring, and approval workflows.

Microsoft Developer hosts Shawn Henry and Rong Lu as they walk through the Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) 1.0 GA release, covering stable APIs, multi-agent handoff orchestration, Python and .NET support, plus the Foundry Toolkit for VS Code with debugging, testing-style evaluation, and GitHub Copilot integration.

Microsoft Developer introduces SQL projects in SSMS 22.5, showing how to bring an existing production database into source control as a SQL project and use it across VS Code, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps for a more reliable database DevOps workflow.

Microsoft Developer walks through Foundry Agent Service managed memory and how it integrates with Microsoft Agent Framework and LangGraph to build stateful agents that retain context across sessions, including per-user scoping, automatic extraction, and CRUD APIs for memory control.

Microsoft Developer (hosted by Thomas Maurer with guest Maria Jose Fernandez) walks through estimating Azure database costs using the Azure Pricing Calculator, focusing on the configuration choices that drive monthly spend and practical ways to model and compare scenarios before you commit.

Microsoft Developer features Gauri Kasar explaining how Azure Database for PostgreSQL supports resilient, high-performance app deployments, including high availability, read replicas, backup/restore, and elastic clusters for scaling.