Published: 2026-07-23
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-23rd-july-2026-117-edition-taswar-bhatti-s6rkf
Hope everyone is enjoying some summer break and here is the #117 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday. I hope this newsletter will help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy or better ask them to subscribe.
1. Free Book – Prompt Engineering for .NET Developers
Excited to share something I’ve been working on…After many late nights of writing, testing, and refining, I’ve finished my FREE ebook: Prompt Engineering for .NET Developers. You can read the entire book from leanpub or from my github repo. taswar/PromptEngineeringForDotNetDevelopers: A free ebook for .NET developers building real AI-powered apps in C# — no Python, no hype.
2. Build Agents you Can Trust on Windows
Through live demos, you’ll see how agents identify available capabilities, plan and take meaningful actions, and how Windows layers permission scoping, inspection, developer tool capabilities, and rollback to keep developers in control.
3. Claude Opus 4 + RAG: Build an AI App with Embeddings & Knowledge Graphs
In this episode, host Justin Garrett sits down with Microsoft MVP Michael Washington to explore how he built AI Story Builders—an open-source (MIT) app that uses structured story data, embeddings, and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to help authors write coherent, consistent fiction.
4. Work IQ: Tooling with MCP & CLI
Jared Spataro, CVP of AI Solutions opens this episode of Work IQ by explaining how Work IQ MCP tools enable agents to safely consume and act on Microsoft 365 workloads. Paolo Pialorsi , Sr Cloud Advocate, then demonstrates using MCPs and Copilot CLI to observe, reason over, and take actions across M365 surfaces like files, meetings, and messages, before our visualization expert, Tomomi Imura , brings it all together.
5. Stop Stitching Models Together — Cohere Command A+ Lands in Microsoft Foundry
Embedded content: Stop Stitching Models Together — Cohere Command A+ Lands in Microsoft Foundry – Taswar Bhatti
Here a blog post of mine that talks about Cohere Command A+ with sample code also in github. Read about how to get Cohere Command A+ up and running on Microsoft Foundry.
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Have a wonderful Thursday 😉
Taswar