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How Squad runs coordinated AI agents inside your repository
Home / AI & ML / GitHub Copilot An inside look at repository-native orchestration with GitHub Copilot and the design patterns behind multi-agent workflows that stay inspectable, predictable, and collaborative. March 19, 2026 | 5 minutes Share: If you’ve used AI coding tools before, you know the pattern. You write a prompt, the model misunderstands, you refine it, and you coax better output. Progress depends more on steering the model than on building the software.
.NET Aspire and Azure Functions integration preview
Have you ever struggled with integrating serverless technology into your existing .NET projects? The new update in Visual Studio has got you covered. Say hello to the powerful integration of .NET Aspire with Azure Functions, making your development process smoother than ever before. With this release of Visual Studio, Azure Functions developers can enlist in .NET Aspire orchestration when creating a new Azure Functions project.
Connect securely to your Azure resources
Visual Studio 2022’s Connected Services features are being updated to help you start secure. In the past, for example with Azure Storage, we’d inject the entire connection string into your configuration. With this update, we’ve removed the secrets from the UX – and from what we save to configuration – altogether. This means your code has fewer secrets in it, so you won’t push those into your source control repository inadvertently.
Security updates to Azure publishing from Visual Studio
Visual Studio 2022 introduces a new feature to improve the security of publishing applications to Azure App Service. This feature is designed to disable Basic Authentication and enable integrated security for a more secure publishing process. Basic Authentication has been identified as a less secure method for managing app deployments. Visual Studio 2022 addresses this issue by offering you an option to disable Basic Authentication, which enhances security by using integrated authentication.
Effortless publishing with Azure Functions Flex Consumption
Struggling with complex deployment processes for your serverless applications? Visual Studio 2022 introduces a seamless solution with the new Azure Functions Flex Consumption hosting plan, now generally available. Imagine a world where deploying your serverless applications to a hosting plan that supports fast scaling and VNet is as simple as a right-click. With the Azure Functions Flex Consumption hosting plan, this is now a reality.
Effortless publishing to Azure WebJobs on Linux
Are you tired of the cumbersome process involved in publishing your .NET console applications to Azure WebJobs on Linux? For developers yearning for a seamless and efficient method to deploy their applications, Visual Studio 2022 introduces a much-anticipated solution. Visual Studio 2022 now supports right-click publishing to Azure WebJobs on Linux, making the deployment process faster and more intuitive than ever before.
Redis backplane for ASP.NET Core SignalR scale-out
Read in English Read in English Edit Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Article 01/12/2023 4 minutes to read In this article By Andrew Stanton-Nurse, Brady Gaster, and Tom Dykstra, This article explains SignalR-specific aspects of setting up a Redis server to use for scaling out an ASP.NET Core SignalR app. Set up a Redis backplane Deploy a Redis server. Important For production use, a Redis backplane is recommended only when it runs in the same data center as the SignalR app.
What's new in Orleans 7.0
November 8th, 2022 The .NET 7 release marks an exciting milestone in many ways, but one in particular that’s exciting for ASP.NET developers building distributed apps or apps designed to be cloud native and ready for dynamic horizontal scale out is the addition of the Orleans team to the broader .NET team.
Power Up Your Power Apps with .NET 6 and Azure
Power Apps are a great way to build business apps quickly and enable a citizen developer, who might be more familiar with understanding and solving business problems than the technical nuances associated with writing code, to quickly flesh out the design of an app and specify how it should function.
ASP.NET Core Series: Deploying your Microservice to Azure Container Instances
Azure Container Instances a simple way to run a container in Azure, without having to manage any virtual machines. Brady Gaster returns in this follow up to the previous episode on Worker services.
ASP.NET Core Series: Getting started with the Worker templates
The Worker Service templates in ASP.NET Core provides a starting point for writing long running service apps. In this episode, Brady Gaster to show us how we can get started with the Worker templates inside of Visual Studio. [00:31] - What are the Worker templates?
ASP.NET Core SignalR production hosting and scaling
01/17/2020 5 minutes to read +5 In this article By Andrew Stanton-Nurse, Brady Gaster, and Tom Dykstra, This article explains hosting and scaling considerations for high-traffic apps that use ASP.NET Core SignalR. Sticky Sessions SignalR requires that all HTTP requests for a specific connection be handled by the same server process. When SignalR is running on a server farm (multiple servers), "sticky sessions" must be used. "Sticky sessions" are also called session affinity by some load balancers.
Host ASP.NET Core SignalR in background services
02/04/2019 3 minutes to read In this article By Brady Gaster This article provides guidance for: Hosting SignalR Hubs using a background worker process hosted with ASP.NET Core. Sending messages to connected clients from within a .NET Core BackgroundService. View or download sample code (how to download) Wire up SignalR during startup Hosting ASP.NET Core SignalR Hubs in the context of a background worker process is identical to hosting a Hub in an ASP.NET Core web app.
Redis backplane for ASP.NET Core SignalR scale-out
11/28/2018 3 minutes to read Contributors In this article By Andrew Stanton-Nurse, Brady Gaster, and Tom Dykstra, This article explains SignalR-specific aspects of setting up a Redis server to use for scaling out an ASP.NET Core SignalR app. Set up a Redis backplane Deploy a Redis server. Important For production use, a Redis backplane is recommended only when it runs in the same data center as the SignalR app. Otherwise, network latency degrades performance.
Real-time web applications with ASP.NET Core SignalR
Brady Gaster (@bradygaster) joins Cecil (@cecilphillip) to show how easy it is to add real-time functionality to your web applications using ASP.NET Core SignalR. They discuss topics such as targeting with clients, SignalR transports, and options for running your SignalR application in the cloud. Now, you can even leverage the Hub protocol spec is the available on GitHub if you're interested in creating your own SignalR client.
ASP.NET SignalR 2.4.0
ASP.NET SignalR 2.4.0 We’ve just shipped the final 2.4.0 version of ASP.NET SignalR, the version of SignalR for System.Web and/or OWIN-based applications. As we mentioned in a previous post on the future of ASP.NET SignalR, 2.4.0 is a minor release which contains some small bug fixes and updates. The majority of the features and fixes we implemented for ASP.NET SignalR were outlined in the 2.4.0 Preview 2 post.
SmartHotel360 Microservices on Azure Kubernetes Service
During the Build 2018 keynote, Scott Hanselman, with help from Scott Guthrie, showed developers the new features available in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Dev Spaces. To help you learn how to deploy microservices written in any framework to AKS we've updated the SmartHotel360 back-end microservices source code and deployment process to optimize it for AKS. You can clone, fork, or download the AKS and Azure Dev Spaces demo on GitHub.
SmartHotel360 - Modernizing Existing Apps with Azure Service Fabric
This is the sixth episode in the SmartHotel360 series, which was used in the keynotes and general sessions at Connect() last November, and is available on GitHub.In this episode, Brady Gaster talks with Mikkel Hegnhoj from the Azure Service Fabric team about how SmartHotel360 modernized an existing, internal application, by moving it into Azure Service Fabric.SmartHotel360 is a fictitious smart hospitality company showcasing the future of connected travel: The heart of this application is...
SmartHotel360 Demo App Mixed Reality
This is the fifth of a five part series where Robert is joined by various technical experts to review the SmartHotel360 demo app, which was used in the keynotes at Connect() last November and is available on GitHub. In this episode, Brady Gaster shows us how adding Mixed reality capabilities provides an immersive experience for hotel staff to visualize data and virtually tour hotel properties.
SmartHotel360 Demo App Backend Services
This is the forth of a five part series where Robert is joined by various technical experts to review the SmartHotel360 demo app, which was used in the keynotes at Connect() last November and is available on GitHub. In this episode, Brady Gaster shows us the backend services used by both the Web and mobile apps. These services are a series of containerized microservices, written in .NET Core, Node and Java, running in a Kubernetes cluster.
SmartHotel360 Demo App Web Site
This is the second of a five part series where Robert is joined by various technical experts to review the SmartHotel360 demo app, which was used in the keynotes at Connect() last November and is available on GitHub. In this episode, Brady Gaster and Maria Naggaga show us the hotel's public Web site, an ASP.NET Core 2.0 website which is a SPA web app developed using React+Redux and server-side rendering.
Announcing the Azure SDK 2.7 for .NET
Today, we’re excited to announce Azure SDK 2.7 for Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio 2015. We are also excited to announce the final release of Visual Studio 2015. Azure SDK 2.7 is the first supported Azure SDK for the final release of Visual Studio 2015. This post summarizes the updates and how the new tools will improve your Azure development experience.
Announcing the Visual Studio Azure Tools and SDK 2.9
No breaking changes to Azure SDK 2.9 have been introduced in this release. We’re excited to announce a new release of Azure SDK for .NET. This post includes details for each feature area and how the new functionality will improve your Azure development experience within Visual Studio. In this release we’ve made significant improvements to numerous components of the Visual Studio Tools for Azure. Azure SDK 2.9 is the first supported SDK for the Visual Studio “15” Preview.
Build an Azure App Service to record Raspberry Pi Sensor Data
I’ve had a Raspberry Pi sitting around since the holidays, along with a ton of ideas on how to make use of it. The ideas aren’t the problem, the lack of time has been. Since I have a whole extra day in 2016 given that it’s leap year, I thought why not use the additional day to finally tinker with my Raspberry Pi?
Announcing the Azure SDK 2.8.1 for .NET
Today, we’re excited to announce Azure SDK 2.8.1 for Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio 2015. This SDK update offers some great new features for Azure App Service developers to complement the new release of App Service API Apps and general availability of Mobile Apps .NET server SDK. With these service and tooling updates fresh on heels of the recent updates to the ASP.NET 5 RC, it’s an exciting time to be developing your Web, Mobile, and REST APIs in Azure.
Announcing the Azure SDK 2.8 for .NET
Today, we’re excited to announce Azure SDK 2.8 for Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio 2015. This post summarizes the updates and how the new tools will improve your Azure development experience. Azure SDK 2.8 for .NET [download for VS 2015 | VS 2013] Authoring and debugging templates is now easier with help from improved IntelliSense support to make it easier to use new resource providers and the latest template language expressions in the Azure Resource Manager template language.
Update on .NET Framework 4.6 and Azure
Update (August 14, 2015) – We’re happy to announce that .NET Framework 4.6 has been rolled out to Azure App Service. So Web App developers can now build and deploy ASP.NET applications running .NET Framework 4.6 to Azure Web Apps. An exciting time for developers A few weeks ago, we released Visual Studio 2015 RTM and the latest version of our cloud development tools in the Azure 2.7 SDK for .NET.
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