🧩⚙️ ARM64X: the ultimate "choose your own architecture" executable! What happens when one binary can run as ARM64 or ARM64EC/x64? Raymond Chen dives into how Windows can be nudged to launch an ARM64X app using a specific architecture via PROC_THREAD_ATTRIBUTE_MACHINE_TYPE and even relaunch itself to match plug-in compatibility. 🤯🔌 📖 Deep dive here: Read the blog 🚀 https://msft.it/6043aOc37
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AI wants into your database. You still decide how far it gets. Bob Ward shows how SQL MCP Server gives tools like GitHub Copilot access to your SQL Server, Azure SQL, or Fabric SQL Database, without ever handing over raw SQL. See how it works under the hood: https://msft.it/6048aOiHK
SQL MCP Server: Bringing AI Agents to Your SQL Data
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If you're the only Super Admin for your Visual Studio Subscriptions, you're also the only one who can add a backup. Add a second Super Admin now, at https://msft.it/6041aO9IB.
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MCP is moving fast, and Visual Studio is keeping pace. Building MCP servers in C#, the patterns and gotchas worth knowing, where the tooling's headed next, it's all covered in this session from Leslie Richardson and Stephen Halter. Watch the full session: https://lnkd.in/eSHYF9mA
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Windows 95 had a secret little trick. 😄 WINSTART.BAT ran after MS‑DOS + AUTOEXEC.BAT but before the Windows user‑mode kernel — right when the virtual machine manager spun up the System VM. Perfect spot for TSRs meant only for Windows apps (like network drivers) without stealing conventional memory from DOS programs. And yep… it actually dates back to Windows 3.1, not 95. 👉 Read the blog: https://buff.ly/nk8n0c2
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Deployments aren't enough. Your database deserves a real development process. Drew Skwiers-Koballa walks through SQL projects in Visual Studio and SSMS, catching antipatterns with code analysis, practicing deployments before they hit production, and building unit tests you can actually trust. Watch the full session: https://lnkd.in/et7yCDcU
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At VSLive! Microsoft HQ, Sebastian Hernandez and Wendy Breiding pulled back the curtain on something worth knowing: the team building Visual Studio uses AI to build Visual Studio, and no two of them do it the same way. They walk through real examples across reviewing, building, and testing, and how Visual Studio stays the place where you supervise the output and make the final call. Watch the full session: https://lnkd.in/e9akag4j
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Unbuffered file copy fans, assemble. 😄 Raymond shows the right way to get FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING during a copy: skip the callback hack (it hands you an already‑opened handle) and use the actual COPY_FILE_NO_BUFFERING flag in CopyFileEx or CopyFile2 instead. Clean, direct, zero shenanigans — just deterministic Windows file I/O. 👉 Read the blog: https://buff.ly/EwfSjUi
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Bring more clarity to GitHub Enterprise license management. If you're responsible for managing GitHub Enterprise licenses included with Visual Studio subscriptions, learn how to manage mixed license sets, optimize license allocation, and make informed decisions. Watch now: https://lnkd.in/gmudfzYD
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