Blogs summary – Monday 28 April 2025
Here are some recent posts I found from interesting Azure, Microsoft and .NET blogs.
New from .NET Blog
- Join the .NET & C# Teams at Microsoft Build 2025
- Build MCP Remote Servers with Azure Functions
- Preview 2 of the .NET AI Template Now Available
- Introducing the AI Dev Gallery: Your Gateway to Local AI Development with .NET
- Building Real‑Time iOS Apps with SignalR: Introducing the Official Swift Client (Public Preview)
New from Azure DevOps Blog
- Azure Boards + GitHub: Recent Updates
- Spring Cleaning: A CTA for Azure DevOps OAuth Apps with expired or long-living secrets
New from GitHub Changelog
- GitHub Copilot for Xcode adds @workspace and support for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4.5
- Mobile monthly: April’s general availability and more
- Reminder for changes to npm replication feeds APIs
- Dependabot now lets you schedule update frequencies with cron expressions
- GitHub Actions workflow security analysis with CodeQL is now generally available
- Updates to security configuration settings for customers in existing grace periods
- GitHub Copilot code review now supports C, C++, Kotlin, and Swift
- Users can now choose whether merging linked pull requests automatically closes the issue
- CodeQL improves JavaScript and Ruby analysis in version 2.21.1
- User prompt improvement is now in public preview within the GitHub Models playground
New from Visual Studio Blog
- GitHub Copilot Highlights in Visual Studio 17.14 Preview 3 (Available Now)
- Toolbox Support for Explicit Assembly References in Windows Forms Out-of-Process Designer
- Effortless adjustments with an adaptive paste
- Set the default file encoding
Thanks for reading!