Best of DevBlogs — November 2025

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   Microsoft for Python Developers Blog

   The November 2025 Python extension for VS Code introduces several productivity enhancements: AI-generated hover summaries can now be inserted directly as docstrings, Copilot summaries support localization, a new code action converts wildcard imports to explicit imports for better code clarity, and the debugger now supports multiple interpreters per workspace through the Python Environments Extension. Additional improvements include better PowerShell activation handling and enhanced Poetry and requirements file detection.

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   OpenAPI.NET: The Biggest Update Ever

   Microsoft released OpenAPI.NET v2 and v3, the library's biggest updates since 2018. Version 2 adds OpenAPI 3.1 support with 50% faster parsing and 35% less memory usage through System.Text.Json integration. Version 3 introduces OpenAPI 3.2 support with enhanced media types, hierarchical tags, and extended parameter options. These updates impact major .NET tools like Swashbuckle, NSwag, and ASP.NET Core's native OpenAPI support in .NET 10.

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   PowerToys 0.96 is here: endpoints for Advanced Paste, metadata support for PowerRename and more!

   PowerToys 0.96 introduces major upgrades to Advanced Paste with support for multiple AI model endpoints (Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral) and local models (Foundry Local, Ollama). Command Palette receives numerous improvements including search functionality and better extension management. PowerRename now supports EXIF and XMP metadata extraction from images. Light Switch gains manual location settings, Dashboard adds sorting options, and ZoomIt introduces screen recording with GIF export. The next release (0.97) is scheduled for January 2025.

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   Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio (November)

   Microsoft shares Visual Studio's November AI roadmap, focusing on new AI agents, enhanced Agent Mode and Chat capabilities, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration with full spec support and governance controls, and expanded model options including GPT-5 Codex and auto-model selection. The updates aim to integrate Copilot throughout the development workflow, from code writing to testing and version control.

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   Announcing OData .NET (ODL) 9 Preview 3 Release

   OData .NET 9 Preview 3 introduces breaking changes and modernizations including safer action query defaults that return null for nullable types, removal of ReadUntypedAsString requiring annotations inside structured objects, ReadOnlySpan overloads for allocation-free model lookups, replacement of legacy Date/TimeOfDay with System.DateOnly/TimeOnly, key alias support for complex properties, and fixes for .NET 8 obsoletion warnings and .NET 10 LINQ expression compatibility. The release removes EF CSDL support and custom transcoding in favor of framework APIs.

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