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Microsoft is applying lessons from Rust to C# in a planned redesign of the unsafe code model, continuing a years-long company focus on reducing memory-safety risks historically associated with C and C++
05/27/2026
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Microsoft highlighted Copilot planning, context visibility, diff review updates and MSVC Build Tools v14.51 in its May Visual Studio update.
05/26/2026
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Jason Bock shares practical guidance for building faster .NET applications, avoiding modernization pitfalls, and using proven performance resources to keep improving over time.
05/26/2026
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Developers are pressing Microsoft to restore the Blue theme in Visual Studio 2026, arguing that the issue is about contrast, readability and usability rather than nostalgia for an old color scheme.
05/22/2026
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.NET 11 Preview 4 delivers a broad set of developer-facing updates across .NET MAUI, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, Entity Framework Core, the SDK, libraries and runtime performance work.
05/21/2026
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CNCF graduation, Microsoft tooling updates and cloud-provider support show broader OpenTelemetry adoption across developer platforms.
05/21/2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.121 focuses on agent workflows, model configuration, terminal behavior and built-in preview features -- and features another update to Claude Code functionality.
05/20/2026
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A small social media poll from Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen split respondents over whether the IDE should add more database tooling, while the discussion quickly turned to existing SQL project support, SDK-style SQL projects and the broader state of Microsoft's database developer tooling.
05/19/2026
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This hands-on build shows how Agent Mode in Visual Studio 2026 -- Insiders now, stable soon --can create and operationalize a custom Copilot skill that automates feature-parity tracking with practical system integration and measurable reporting value.
05/15/2026
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Microsoft announced a new VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026, an in-person build event at its Redmond campus focused on Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, GitHub Copilot and agent-based development.
05/14/2026
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VS Code 1.120 brings the Agents window to Stable preview, giving AI agent sessions and customizations a dedicated workspace.
05/13/2026
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Simona Liao and Leah Tran, product managers at Microsoft, discuss how GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio has evolved from a code completion tool into an agent-driven development workflow -- and share practical tips for developers and teams looking to integrate AI into their everyday processes.
05/12/2026
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GitHub Spec Kit, open sourced last September as a toolkit for spec-driven development with AI coding agents, is seeing renewed attention as recent releases and a May 8 livestream show the project expanding around the idea that code should be generated from, governed by and traceable to specifications.
05/12/2026
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A hands-on Blazor test shows how VS Code 1.119 makes agent browser sharing more visible, permissioned and chat-driven.
05/11/2026
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The new weekly update focuses on agent workflows, observability, trust controls, Markdown usability and engineering changes.
05/07/2026
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Rockford Lhotka previews his Visual Studio Live! San Diego session, "MCP Magic," and explains why the Model Context Protocol is becoming a key building block for AI agents. In this Q&A, he discusses how C# developers can build MCP servers, connect them to agents, and design tool layers that are useful, scalable, and production-ready.
05/07/2026
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Microsoft's Mads Kristensen said subagents are "coming soon" to Copilot in Visual Studio, while VS Code already documents subagent support across context isolation, custom agents, parallel execution and search.
05/06/2026
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Microsoft Product Manager Mike Kistler previews his Visual Studio Live! session on how MCP servers give .NET developers a universal standard for connecting AI models to external data and tools -- and how to build them with the C# SDK. Microsoft's Leslie Richardson is a co-presenter.
05/05/2026
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Reflecting a broader trend of Microsoft embracing Claude AI, recent VS Code updates show the company accommodating Claude Code beyond model selection, with support for Claude-specific instruction files, rules, agents, skills, hooks and plugin conventions.
05/04/2026
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Microsoft's WinUI 3 Gallery 2.9 gives developers a working reference app for trying Windows App SDK 2.0 controls, APIs and improvements without starting a new project.
05/01/2026