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In a new video, Mads Kristensen walked through 10 extensions and updates aimed at common developer requests, spanning workspace modes, comment handling, scratch files, Markdown linting, CSV editing, Azure resource access and even animated pets.
04/03/2026
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By OpenClaw AI
What happens when a self-hosted space lobster tries to work in Visual Studio 2026? OpenClaw finds terminal access, project insight, and just enough routing weirdness to send a message to itself instead of editing code -- which, honestly, is not not on-brand.
04/01/2026
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A quick hands-on proof of concept shows how Visual Studio's new custom-agent framework can be aimed at a real Blazor project, along with what else is new in the March update.
03/31/2026
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Microsoft has released .NET Aspire 13.2 with a new AI-focused CLI for coding agents, preview TypeScript AppHost support, dashboard updates, and revised integrations.
03/25/2026
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Microsoft released TypeScript 6.0 on March 23, the last version built on the original JavaScript codebase, with three post-RC changes and a wave of deprecations designed to ready codebases for the Go-based TypeScript 7.0.
03/23/2026
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end example of random forest regression to predict a single numeric value, implemented using C#. A random forest is a collection of basic decision tree regressors that have been trained on different subsets of the source training data. The technique reduces model overfitting to give more accurate predictions on new, previously unseen data.
03/18/2026
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Release Candidate lands March 6, positioning 6.0 as precursor to native TypeScript 7.0 based on Go Language.
03/06/2026
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Microsoft updates its reference WinUI 3 sample app with taskbar integration, clipboard samples, and quality-of-life fixes.
03/06/2026
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VS Code's AI Toolkit and Microsoft Foundry can speed up agent development, but real-world success often depends on picking the right runtime and region, keeping tool-driven context under control, and designing around quotas, throttling, and uneven model/tool availability.
03/04/2026
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Microsoft introduces agent technology to Visual Studio, featuring curated assistants and personalized agent creation tools.
03/03/2026
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Microsoft's Visual Studio February Update (18.3) adds new Copilot agents and workflows for WinForms guidance, test generation, call stack analysis, profiling with unit tests, C++ modernization, and improved Razor Hot Reload behavior.
02/25/2026
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In a social media feedback thread started by Microsoft Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen, multiple developers unloaded on the IDE's facility with AI provided by GitHub Copilot and other tools.
02/24/2026
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Markdown is emerging in VS Code and Visual Studio 2026 as a version-controlled instruction layer that governs AI agents, reusable prompts and modular skills alongside traditional documentation.
02/24/2026
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Microsoft MVP Philip Japikse discusses how ASP.NET Core Razor Pages in .NET 10 provides a streamlined, page-centric development model for building maintainable web applications, leveraging modern features like dependency injection, configuration management, and environment awareness .
02/16/2026
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Microsoft's .NET 11 Preview 1 introduces runtime and SDK enhancements while facing community scrutiny over C# syntax complexity and a strategic shift toward AI-driven development.
02/11/2026
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Copilot's 'Auto' model picker in VS Code and Visual Studio currently routes to whatever model is most available and policy-compliant--not the one best matched to your prompt--while Microsoft/GitHub say task-aware routing is planned but not yet shipped.
02/06/2026
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GitHub's new Agents tab centralizes Copilot coding agent sessions in a repository, making it easier to launch tasks, track progress, and review the resulting pull requests in standard tooling such as Visual Studio
01/29/2026
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of quadratic regression, implemented from scratch, with SGD training, using C#. Compared to standard linear regression, quadratic regression is better able to handle data with a non-linear structure, and data with interactions between predictor variables.
01/21/2026
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A review of five non-Copilot AI coding assistants available in the Visual Studio Marketplace that support Visual Studio 2026 and exceed 100,000 installs.
01/20/2026
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What a difference a year makes in the fast-moving advanced-AI space! GitHub Copilot's vision and image-based features arrived first in VS Code in February 2025 and have since become more integrated there, while Visual Studio is beginning to add similar capabilities through Copilot Chat in a more limited form. Here's a hands-on demo of what you can do now in both.
01/14/2026
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C# was named TIOBE’s Programming Language of the Year, while the index also pointed to a potential rise for TypeScript. Here’s how the latest rankings compare across TIOBE, RedMonk, and PYPL.
01/08/2026
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Strong holiday viewership of advanced VSLive! Orlando sessions points to growing demand for immersive, hands-on training as AI-assisted development and modern .NET architectures reshape how developers work.
01/07/2026
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Developers on Reddit discussing upgrades from .NET 8 to .NET 10 report few breaking changes, minimal effort, and consistent performance and LTS benefits, even across large, multi-project codebases.
01/05/2026
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Microsoft has moved C++ into Visual Studio's deepest Copilot tier, adding symbol-aware tools in public preview that let Copilot agent mode refactor and edit large C++ codebases across multiple files, similar to the kind of deep integration long associated with C#
12/19/2025
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Ted Neward’s "Busy .NET Developer's Guide to Orleans" session at Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas (March 18, 2026) walks .NET developers through the Orleans actor model, showing how it simplifies state, concurrency, and scaling and how it can coexist with traditional .NET APIs. Early registrants can save $500 by the Dec. 19 Year-End Savings deadline.
12/16/2025