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Azure for .NET Developers Articles, Tutorials & News
Azure for .NET Developers articles, tutorials, and news from the DotNetNews archive.
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Azure for .NET Developers work shows up across many DotNetNews issues because teams keep hitting the same implementation questions. Azure for .NET Developers shows up when .NET code leaves the laptop and has to run under cloud, container, or CI constraints.
Recurring subtopics in recent issues include Azure C#, Microsoft Azure .NET, Azure cloud .NET, and Azure tutorials .NET. When a subtopic never appears in the archive titles or excerpts, it is left out of this introduction.
Expect publisher tutorials, release notes, architecture write-ups, and field notes linked from DotNetNews issues. Start here is a short editorial shortlist for Azure for .NET Developers; the archive list is chronological and larger. Secondary angles such as Azure for .NET developers and Azure C# appear when the archive actually covered them. Cross-links to Azure Functions with C# and Azure Cosmos DB for .NET help when the problem spans more than one tag.
Each card points at the original publisher URL and the DotNetNews issue that carried it, so you can read the article in context or jump straight to the source.
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Editor picks for Azure
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How to build long-running MCP tools on Azure Functions
Microsoft Dev Blogs Issue #502
Interesting Azure Functions angle for MCP workloads that outlive normal request expectations.
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Building Production-Ready RAG Applications with Azure AI Search and .NET
C# Corner Issue #502
RAG guidance is everywhere, but production-readiness with Azure AI Search is the part teams actually need.
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Building Multi-Tenant AI SaaS Applications with ASP.NET Core and Azure OpenAI
C# Corner Issue #501
Multi-tenant AI SaaS is where architecture details matter more than demos.
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EF Core and Azure SQL Database: A Step-by-Step Guide
Dev Tips Issue #498
Practical guide for getting EF Core working cleanly against Azure SQL, including resiliency and passwordless access.
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Deploying an MCP server to Azure Container Apps with the Microsoft Agent Framework
Medium Issue #496
Practical deployment guidance for getting an MCP server out of local dev and into Azure Container Apps.
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See our new Azure Cosmos DB Design Patterns
Microsoft Dev Blogs Issue #495
Strong reference material for Cosmos teams that need proven modeling approaches instead of learning partitioning lessons the hard way.
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Cosmos DB Shell unlock agentic workflows with MCP toolkit
Medium Issue #493
Interesting crossover of Cosmos DB tooling and MCP-style agent workflows; worth a look if you're experimenting with AI-assisted data access.
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Local Aspire Development with Azure Cosmos DB and the Preview Emulator | BEN ABT
Medium Issue #488
Local Cosmos DB plus Aspire is exactly the kind of developer-loop improvement I want more of.
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FabCon and SQLCon 2026 in Barcelona: Building the data foundation for Microsoft Copilot and agents
Microsoft Azure - Arun Ulag Issue #574
Microsoft Fabric and SQL innovations announced at FabCon and SQLCon Barcelona 2026 help organizations build trusted data foundations for AI. The post FabCon and SQLCon 2026 in Barcelona: Building the ...
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SQLAlchemy 2.1 brings built-in support for mssql-python
Microsoft Dev Blogs - Matt Hyon Issue #574
We're pleased to share that SQLAlchemy 2.1.0 is now generally available, with built-in support for mssql-python, Microsoft's Python driver for SQL Server. You can now use it with SQLAlchemy's ORM and ...
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Azure SQL: Choosing the Right Platform for Your SQL Server Workload
C# Corner - Skant Gupta Issue #573
PENDING REVIEW: MICROSOFT ARTICLE UNRETRIEVABLE (INSUFFICIENT FULL TEXT)
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Ship agents faster with expanded model choice, voice agents, and continuous optimization
Microsoft Azure - Tina Schuchman Issue #573
The best model for your business will keep changing. Adopting it should move your business forward, not send your team back to rebuild the architecture around it. The post Ship agents faster with expa...
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Public Preview: Auto-pause and auto-resume for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Serverless
Microsoft Tech Community - kendalvandyke Issue #573
PENDING REVIEW: MICROSOFT ARTICLE UNRETRIEVABLE (HTTP 403). Auto-pause and auto-resume are now available in public preview for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale databases using the Serverless compute tier...
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DiskANN Vector Index and Vector Search Are Now Generally Available in Azure SQL
Microsoft Dev Blogs - Pooja Kamath Issue #572
Today, we are announcing the general availability of DiskANN Vector Index & Search across Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance with the always-up-to-date update policy, and SQL database in M...
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Why content extraction still matters in the GenAI era
Microsoft Dev Blogs - Chu Lahlou Issue #572
The future of enterprise AI is not determined by the model you choose. It is determined by whether your agents can trust the content they act on. Five years into the era of large language model...
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What's new across Microsoft SQL at SQLCon/FabCon Europe 2026
Microsoft Dev Blogs - Anna Hoffman Issue #571
Live From Barcelona Woo! I’m posting this live from the first ever European SQLCon (joint conference with FabCon EU), and the second ever SQLCon. The energy here is great, as the community comes toget...
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Announcing Public Preview for Azure Cosmos DB in Fabric Database Hub!
Microsoft Dev Blogs - Jai Maldonado Issue #570
Azure Cosmos DB support in Fabric Database Hub is now available in public preview. For the first time, Azure Cosmos DB customers can discover and monitor their accounts from Database Hub alongside oth...
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Azure SDK Release (September 2026)
Microsoft Dev Blogs - Justin Bettencourt Issue #570
Thank you for your interest in the new Azure SDKs! We release new features, improvements, and bug fixes every month. Subscribe to our Azure SDK Blog RSS Feed to get notified when a new release is avai...
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Enhancing Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine lifecycle
Microsoft Azure - The Microsoft Azure Team Issue #570
Our Virtual Machine Lifecycle policy guides how we manage these transitions, giving Azure customers transparency, predictability, and guidance. The post Enhancing Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine lifec...
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Azure SQL Migration: How to Assess SQL Server Before Moving to Azure
C# Corner - Skant Gupta Issue #570
PENDING REVIEW: MICROSOFT ARTICLE UNRETRIEVABLE (INSUFFICIENT FULL TEXT)
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Bring Your Azure DevOps Repos to Azure SRE Agent Plugins
Microsoft Tech Community - Dalibor_Kovacevic Issue #570
PENDING REVIEW: MICROSOFT ARTICLE UNRETRIEVABLE (HTTP 403). Plugins package the skills, agents, and connector settings your team wants every SRE Agent to have. A plugin marketplace is a Git repository...
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Understanding Azure Container Apps Costs: ACA Compute, Metrics and Cost observability - Part 2
Microsoft Tech Community - srinman Issue #568
Welcome to Part 2 of our three-part Azure Container Apps series. This time, we’ll explore how to monitor resource consumption, detect over-provisioned applications, and right-size ACA workloads for...
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Azure SQL Automatic Index Compaction: Less Index Maintenance
C# Corner - Niharika Gupta Issue #568
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Everything released in September 2026 for Azure Developer CLI
Microsoft Dev Blogs - Kristen Womack Issue #568
Welcome to the September 2026 edition of the Azure Developer CLI (azd) release blog. This post covers releases 1.33.0, 1.34.0,
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1B row vector search in less than a second with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale | Data Exposed
YouTube - Microsoft Developer Issue #567
Learn about vector indexing in Microsoft SQL from the PM and engineering team. ✅ Chapters: 0:00 Intro to Product Management and Engineering vector team 1:13 What things were customers asking for. Exam...
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Your Agent Shouldn't Wait for a Prompt: Build an Event-Driven Microsoft Foundry Routine
Microsoft Tech Community - taniamuley Issue #566
Most agents are still waiting in a chat window.
They may be capable of classifying an incident, finding the right documentation, or recommending an owner - but no...
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Data API builder 2.1.5: JSON and Vector Data Type Support, and More
Microsoft Dev Blogs - Carlos Robles Issue #565
Data API builder (DAB) 2.1.5 is now available as a stable release, and it is about meeting modern data where it lives: documents next to rows, embeddings next to both. This release brings native suppo...
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Azure Cost Estimation: Price AI Workloads Confidently
YouTube - Microsoft Developer Issue #565
As organizations rapidly adopt AI, understanding pricing isn’t just helpful—it’s essential for building scalable, cost-efficient solutions. In this episode of the Azure Essentials Show, Thomas sits do...
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When my agent is slow or wrong, where do I even look?
YouTube - Microsoft Developer Issue #564
https://aka.ms/foundry-portal https://aka.ms/InsideMicrosoftFoundryPlaylist Your agent took too long to answer, or it answered with confidence and got it wrong. Was it the model, a tool, or the instru...
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Bring agentic reasoning to Python function apps with Azure Functions Agent bindings (preview)
Microsoft Dev Blogs - Victoria Hall Issue #564
Azure Functions applications already have a strong model for event-driven work: a trigger starts the function, bindings connect it to other services, and application code validates input and controls ...
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Introducing the Native Confluent Cloud Connector Experience in Azure Cosmos DB!
Microsoft Dev Blogs - Theo van Kraay Issue #563
Co-authored with Praveen Raja P [alert type="tip" heading="Quick hint"]Connectors run in a Confluent organization provisioned through Apache Kafka & Apache Flink on Confluent Cloud, an Azure Native In...
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GitOps with Argo CD extension for AKS is Now Generally Available
Microsoft Tech Community - Poornima99 Issue #563
We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of GitOps with Argo CD extension for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)! Argo CD has become one of the most widely adopted GitOps tooling in the Ku...
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Automating Microsoft Entra ID User Lifecycle Management with PowerShell and Microsoft Graph
Microsoft Tech Community - Deleted Issue #563
Introduction — The Problem Managing user accounts throughout the employee lifecycle is one of the common responsibilities of an Identity or Microsoft 365 administrator. When an employee joins an organ...