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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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Claude in Microsoft Foundry: How to Connect Agents to Tools and MCP
C# Corner - Ananya Desai Issue #559
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Connect Azure Functions to more services with managed connectors
Microsoft Dev Blogs - Lily Ma Issue #557
Azure Functions can already connect to many Azure services through triggers and bindings. With managed connectors, your functions can access about 1,700 connectors across services such as Microsoft 36...
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PostgreSQL to SQL Field Notes: Date & Time
Microsoft Dev Blogs - Jerry Nixon Issue #554
Welcome to SQL First, welcome to SQL! You're going to like this. Upgrading from PostgreSQL is real work, and depending on your old PostgreSQL, that process ca
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From Chatbots to Automated Agents: Routines in Microsoft Foundry Are Now Generally Available
Microsoft Dev Blogs - Linda Li Issue #553
Agents are rapidly evolving beyond chat. The first generation of agents waited for a person to send a message. Today, organizations want agents that can monitor work, respond to business events, and c...
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Using Azure Blob Storage as a durable filesystem for LangChain Deep Agents
Microsoft Dev Blogs - Vishnu Charan TJ Issue #551
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Foundry hosted agent isolation with Microsoft Agent Framework
Microsoft Dev Blogs - Roger Barreto Issue #550
Foundry hosted agent isolation exposes two independent controls. User isolation identifies whose data may be used. At the same time, Foundry hosted session isolation identifies where code and files co...
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Three Microsoft Agent Framework Posts, One Working App: RAG, a Custom Agent, and a Workflow Graph…
Medium - Ali Süleyman TOPUZ Issue #550
I have been building small things with Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) for about six weeks now, mostly evenings, mostly on a machine with…
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Agentic RAG and chat completion in the Microsoft SQL engine | Data Exposed
YouTube - Microsoft Developer Issue #550
Learn how you can use various capabilities within Microsoft SQL (SQL Server, Azure SQL, SQL DB in Fabric) to do things like chat completion, and integrate with Microsoft Foundry, Gateway, and Teams. ✅...
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From Redis pressure to a healthier service
Microsoft Dev Blogs Issue #549
The engineering journey behind an Azure Managed Redis migration for Copilot Studio agent flows Microsoft Copilot Studio helps organizations build agents and automate business processes. Agent flows le...
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Enterprise-ready Vibe Coding with Rayfin | Data Exposed
YouTube Issue #548
Rayfin is a new open-source SDK and CLI that lets you (or a coding agent working on your behalf) define an application backend in code and deploy it to Microsoft Fabric. The deployed site runs as a fi...
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What if an agent could refactor your agent?
YouTube Issue #546
https://aka.ms/foundry-portal https://aka.ms/InsideMicrosoftFoundryPlaylist Your cupcake agent works. But is it still using the current Microsoft Foundry pattern? Would you notice if the SDK changed? ...
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What's new in Microsoft Foundry: July and August 2026
Microsoft Dev Blogs Issue #544
Microsoft Foundry's July and August 2026 updates make Hosted Agents, Voice Live integration, and Toolboxes generally available; expand Claude tools hosted on Azure; update Model Router's regions and m...
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Deploying to Foundry
YapCast – Jesse Liberty Issue #544
The demonstration program discussed (and used) in the previous blog posts ran entirely locally as a console application. This week I set out to migrate it to Foundry. To do so, I enlisted the help of ...
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E4: Optimize performance and scalability with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
YouTube Issue #543
Bob and Anna demo Azure SQL Database Hyperscale’s unique architecture, including independent scaling for compute and storage to help manage changing application demands without disruptions. 0:00: Intr...
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Advocating for Uptime: The 6 Phases of Change
Microsoft Dev Blogs Issue #543
Schema change is inevitable. We do not get everything right the first time, and even when we do, the world around the database keeps changing. Requirements mature, products evolve, and assumptions tha...
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E3: Build AI apps with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
YouTube Issue #543
Bob and Anna demo how to use vector embeddings and vector indexes in Azure SQL Database Hyperscale for more efficient semantic search and retrieval capabilities. 0:00: Introduction: AI in Azure SQL 0:...
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Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents: Benchmarking Deployment Overhead for .NET Agents
C# Corner Issue #543
Benchmark Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents for .NET by measuring deployment time, startup overhead, resource usage, and the operational cost of hosted AI agents.
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🧳 Bring Your Own AI Models to GitHub Copilot in VS Code
YouTube Issue #542
Use your own Azure-hosted AI models with GitHub Copilot in VS Code. See how Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) lets you connect models from Microsoft Foundry, choose which models appear in Copilot, and use the...
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Building an End-to-End Enterprise AI Platform on Azure
YouTube Issue #542
Enterprise AI systems span ingestion, embeddings, vector search, APIs, and partner integrations—often across serverless and container platforms. In this presentation, see how Contoso builds a producti...
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Two zones or three? A design framework for zone-resilient Azure workloads
Microsoft Azure Issue #542
Zone resiliency isn't a single number you apply to a whole workload. The useful question isn't “how many zones?” but “how many zones does each component need to survive the loss of one?” Decide zone p...
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Native memory for Microsoft Agent Framework with Azure Cosmos DB
Microsoft Dev Blogs Issue #541
Agents are more useful when they can remember what matters beyond the current conversation. Today, we're announcing a new preview integration that gives Microsoft Agent Framework agents durable, cross...
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The Agentic Road to Revenue
Microsoft Dev Blogs Issue #541
The Agentic Road to Revenue
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The End of Index Maintenance? | Data Exposed
YouTube Issue #540
Automatic index compaction (currently in public preview across Azure SQL DB, MI, and SQL database in Fabric) is a game changer for index maintenance. Learn how. ✅ Chapters: 0:00 intro 0:30 what's the ...
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Microsoft Tenants
YapCast – Jesse Liberty Issue #540
What is an Azure tenant (Microsoft Entra ID tenant) — and what is it used for? tl;drAn Azure tenant — now called a Microsoft Entra ID tenant — is a dedicated, isolated instance of Microsoft’s identity...
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MulticloudDB SDK: Cross-cloud portability in the coding agent era
Microsoft Dev Blogs Issue #540
Building cross-cloud solutions with best-of-breed cloud-native databases means learning multiple SDKs, translating queries, handling different errors, and testing across providers. The Multicloud DB S...