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Alvin Ashcraft

Sr. Content Developer at Microsoft on the Microsoft Foundry docs; Writer of WinUI and .NET Concurrency books for Packt; Philadelphia area; Mets fan; TechBash organizer. alvinashcraft.com

From federated connectors to Cowork: using a MCP server for a plugin buff.ly/KkvecUy #ai #copilot #agents #mcp #oauth #softwaredev #cowork

Dew Drop - June 23, 2026 (#4696) www.alvinashcraft.com/2026/06/23/d... #dotnet #ai #webdev #github #appdev #devops #csharp #visualstudio #cloud #dewdrop

2026 .NET Foundation Board of Directors Results - Congratulations to Mitchel, Meagon & Hayden! buff.ly/lKOfpjT #dotnet #netfoundation #devcommunity

What’s it like for Microsoft to manage open-source projects? What’s in it for Microsoft? | One Dev Question with Amanda Silver buff.ly/D3AeQrh #microsoft #trends #devcommunity #opensource

How we built a Flutter-powered AI coffee shop buff.ly/jQEyLZX #flutter #appdev #ai #dartlang #mobiledev

From pledge to practice: Building a more inclusive open-source ecosystem | GitHub buff.ly/fXV1mXV #github #devcommunity #oss #opensource #developers

What 50,000 Runs of a 5-Line Eval Taught Us buff.ly/LZOCgDr #vscode #evals #visualstudiocode #ai #devtools

Models don’t have preferences, they have context | by Waldek Mastykarz buff.ly/Yy4IRrr #softwaredev #ai #models #agents

Azure SDK Release (May 2026) buff.ly/SlygJHu #rustlang #javascript #golang #dotnet #csharp #python #azure #cloud #azuresdk

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How we built a Flutter-powered AI coffee shop

If you start giving away coffee, people will show up. The Flutter team had been trying for a while to find a way to put this principle to…

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How AI coding models calibrate effort, token cost, and tool use on even the simplest task, and what that means for model selection and cost.

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Learn about the progress we’ve made toward our accessibility goals and how you can help make open source more inclusive.

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What 50,000 Runs of a 5-Line Eval Taught Us

From pledge to practice: Building a more inclusive open source ecosystem

You open a fresh chat, type "What framework should I use for a web app?", and the model says "React." You screenshot it, share it, and write "Claude

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Models don't have preferences, they have context - Microsoft for Developers

What’s it actually like for Microsoft to manage open source projects? Amanda Silver shares how collaboration, community input, and real-world usage shape the way these projects evolve. More from…

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What’s it like for Microsoft to manage open source projects? What’s in it for Microsoft?

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2026 .NET Foundation Board of Directors Results

Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you'll find this month's highlights and release notes.

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Azure SDK Release (May 2026)

What's New in Aspire 13.4.6 Patch release for Aspire 13.4 fixing polyglot AppHost code generation binding when CLI and SDK versions diverge, resource service port collision in --isolated mode, and ...

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Release Aspire 13.4.6 · microsoft/aspire

In this post, we'll learn how to reuse the same MCP server and the same Teams Developer Portal OAuth registration from our federated connector to add it as a connector inside a Microsoft 365 Copilot…

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From federated connectors to Cowork: using a MCP server for a plugin