Blogs summary – Thursday 28 May 2026
Here are some recent posts I found from interesting Azure, Microsoft and .NET blogs.
New from .NET Blog
- NuGet Package Pruning: Cleaner Dependencies and Actionable Vulnerability Reports
- Improving C# Memory Safety
- Announcing Agent Governance Toolkit MCP Extensions for .NET
- Give Your .NET MAUI Android Apps a Material 3 Makeover
- Doing More with GitHub Copilot as a .NET Developer
New from GitHub Changelog
- GitHub Copilot for Eclipse is open source
- Staged publishing and new install-time controls for npm
- Code coverage on pull requests is now in public preview
- GitHub Classroom sign-ups are no longer available
- Filter secret scanning approval requests by sort order and bypass status
- Dependabot version updates now support the sbt ecosystem
- Target Copilot models to organizations with model rules
- GitHub Code Quality: Repository Enablement API
- Copilot Memory has more controls for deletion, scope, and the Copilot CLI
- Claude Opus 4.8 is generally available for GitHub Copilot
New from Visual Studio Blog
- Plan Before You Build: Introducing the Plan agent in Visual Studio
- Visual Studio May Update – Plan, Review, Refine
Thanks for reading!