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In-Depth
Developer complaints about GitHub Copilot's new usage-based billing model have centered on unexpectedly rapid AI credit consumption, and neither GitHub nor Microsoft has responded directly to the backlash, though they have previously published guidance to lessen model usage costs.
06/04/2026
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In-Depth
GitHub's brand-new Copilot desktop app, in technical preview, handled a small Blazor issue from planning through pull request creation, but the hands-on test also showed why developers still need to verify agent work in the running app before merging.
06/03/2026
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News
Microsoft's Build 2026 Windows developer announcements point to a broader platform strategy for agentic AI, spanning terminal workflows, local models, app-building skills, Cloud PCs and operating system-level containment.
06/02/2026
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In-Depth
A journalist using GitHub Copilot Pro details how a broken editorial workflow on day one of usage-based billing led to runaway token consumption, a projected $180 monthly bill, and practical tactics for cutting AI credit burn.
06/02/2026
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The Data Science Lab
AdaBoost.R2 regression works by building an ensemble of decision trees, training them on reweighted data, and combining their predictions with a weighted median, while also showing how parameter choices affect accuracy and overfitting.
06/01/2026
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News
Microsoft's May 2026 VS Code update makes BYOK usable in restricted environments while adding agent, browser and issue-reporting updates.
05/29/2026
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News
Uno Platform is positioning itself as a cross-platform modernization path for Windows Presentation Foundation apps, combining incremental migration, AI-assisted code translation, Model Context Protocol tooling and runtime validation.
05/28/2026
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Q&A
Microsoft Senior Content Developer Alvin Ashcraft explains how to use .NET MAUI, the MAUI Community Toolkit and MVVM Toolkit to speed up cross-platform app development with practical patterns for XAML, C# Markup and device features
05/28/2026
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News
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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News
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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Q&A
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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News
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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News
.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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News
CNCF graduation, Microsoft tooling updates and cloud-provider support show broader OpenTelemetry adoption across developer platforms.
05/21/2026
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News
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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News
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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In-Depth
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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News
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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In-Depth
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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Q&A
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