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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
devblogs.microsoft.com 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-sharpcorner.com 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-sharpcorner.com 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
antondevtips.com 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.com 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
devblogs.microsoft.com 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
wondertalik.medium.com 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.com Issue #488
Local Cosmos DB plus Aspire is exactly the kind of developer-loop improvement I want more of.
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What's new in Microsoft Foundry: July and August 2026
devblogs.microsoft.com 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
jesseliberty.com 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.com 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
devblogs.microsoft.com 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.com 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-sharpcorner.com 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.com 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.com 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
azure.microsoft.com 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
devblogs.microsoft.com 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
devblogs.microsoft.com Issue #541
The Agentic Road to Revenue
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The End of Index Maintenance? | Data Exposed
youtube.com 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
jesseliberty.com 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
devblogs.microsoft.com 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...
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Using the .NET .http file to test native auth in Entra External ID (EEID)
medium.com Issue #539
The .http docs are here. Continue reading on The new control plane »
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SQL Decomposition in a Nutshell
devblogs.microsoft.com Issue #538
Application developers already know what happens when one method does everything: it becomes difficult to read, test, reason over, and safely change. We use patterns like decomposition, encapsulation,...
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Using the .NET .http file to test native auth with SSPR in Entra External ID (EEID)
medium.com Issue #537
SSPR = Self-service password reset. Continue reading on The new control plane »
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Building a Real-Time Monitoring & Control Platform
medium.com Issue #534
How I approached telemetry ingestion, UI responsiveness, licensing, and native desktop packaging for a real-time control platform for…
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Try the new SqlClient and Retry connections natively
devblogs.microsoft.com Issue #534
The 2002 release of the original .NET Framework shipped ADO.NET and System.Data.SqlClient, the driver for SQL Server that gave .NET applications a standard connection approach. Over the years, updates...
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From dotnet run to Foundry Hosted Agent in 3 lines of C#
devblogs.microsoft.com Issue #534
A couple of weeks ago I was talking with a couple of friends who are building agents with Microsoft Agent Framework. The demos were great, the agents were smart, everyone was happy. And then one of th...
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.NET Aspire 13.5 AppHost: Replacing Deployment YAML with C# Infrastructure
c-sharpcorner.com Issue #533
Explore .NET Aspire 13.5 AppHost and learn how C# infrastructure definitions can simplify deployment configuration and reduce infrastructure drift.
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Powering Memory in Foundry Agent Service, with Azure Cosmos DB
devblogs.microsoft.com Issue #532
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Azure Cosmos DB in the Agentic Era: Data Tools for Developers and AI Agents
devblogs.microsoft.com Issue #528
Anthropic's 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report captures an important tension in how developers use AI. Engineers report using AI in roughly 60% of their work, yet say they can fully delegate only 0–20%...
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Building Real-Time Voice Agents with .NET and Azure Voice Live
c-sharpcorner.com Issue #526
Build real-time voice agents with .NET and Azure Voice Live for low-latency conversational experiences using speech processing, AI models, tools, memory, knowledge, and agent workflows.