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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the kernel ridge regression technique to predict a single numeric value. The demo uses stochastic gradient descent, one of two possible training techniques. There is no single best machine learning regression technique, but when kernel ridge regression prediction works, it is often very accurate.
09/02/2025
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Microsoft is bringing its Azure-aware Copilot experience to Visual Studio 2022. The preview extension lets developers use Copilot to inspect resources, check diagnostics and logs, run Azure CLI, and deploy inside the IDE.
08/26/2025
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Microsoft added bring-your-own-model support to Copilot Chat in Visual Studio and made the Model Context Protocol generally available in the IDE, expanding model choice and enabling governed connections to internal tools and data.
08/25/2025
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GitHub Copilot’s upgraded coding agent, now accessible through a new agents panel, lets Visual Studio and VS Code developers offload coding chores to AI and track results across GitHub’s ecosystem.
08/21/2025
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Microsoft’s Bradley Ball dives into the inner workings of SQL Server indexing to help developers and DBAs speak the same language, avoid common pitfalls, and boost performance with smarter, more intentional index design.
08/20/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of computing the determinant of a matrix using the C# language. In machine learning scenarios, computing the determinant of a matrix is typically used during model training to determine if a matrix has an inverse or not.
08/19/2025
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Microsoft is rolling out a new Python Environments extension in VS Code, now reaching 20% of stable channel users. The tool provides a dedicated panel for creating, managing and assigning environments, with APIs for third-party integration, while also laying groundwork for community-driven environment manager support.
08/18/2025
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Microsoft used the Visual Studio Live! keynote at its Redmond headquarters to unveil the future of its flagship IDE, including monthly updates, a new major version, deeper AI and Copilot integration, and user-driven enhancements aimed at boosting speed, flexibility, and productivity.
08/14/2025
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The 2025 Reader's Choice Awards recognize the solutions developers themselves rely on every day to build, test, deploy and maintain world-class applications.
08/14/2025
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The update includes a new XAML Source Generator for .NET MAUI and PipeReader support in System.Text.Json. The release also delivers a range of improvements across desktop, web, and libraries, plus numerous fixes and optimizations after data/desktop devs were dissed last month in a "small" release.
08/13/2025
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Learn what Project Orleans, an open-source, cross-platform framework from Microsoft for building distributed, scalable, and high-availability applications using the virtual actor model.
08/13/2025
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Microsoft today announced OpenAI's latest and greatest frontier AI model is now available to the GitHub Copilot tool within the company's flagship Visual Studio IDE, just days after it was released.
08/12/2025
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In this session preview, Roy Cornelissen explains how messaging frameworks like NServiceBus, MassTransit, Dapr, and Wolverine can help .NET teams build scalable, event-driven applications — and how to choose the right one for your architecture.
08/11/2025
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The July 2025 update to Visual Studio Code (v1.103) introduces Chat Checkpoints for restoring AI-driven code sessions and a set of enhancements to the Model Context Protocol (MCP), boosting tool capacity, reliability, and configurability in agent mode.
08/07/2025
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At Live! 360 in Orlando this November, data & AI engineer Jean Joseph will demonstrate how to build AI-powered applications with Azure Database for PostgreSQL. His session covers vector search, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for real-world AI use cases, showing how PostgreSQL with Azure extensions can deliver semantic search, recommendations, and chatbots directly from within the database.
08/07/2025
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Microsoft is rolling out OpenAI's new open-weight models across Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry, empowering developers to run, customize, and deploy AI on their terms--from cloud to edge.
08/06/2025
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Learn how to build high-performance, secure APIs in .NET 9 with real-world guidance from architect Tony Champion, who will explore best practices for scalability, rate limiting, versioning, and more.
08/05/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of k-nearest neighbors regression using JavaScript. There are many machine learning regression techniques, but k-nearest neighbors is especially simple to implement and the results are highly interpretable.
08/04/2025
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"The newer AI-enabled editors like Claude Code and Cursor are attracting interest from developers already using the industry standard IDE, VS Code."
08/01/2025
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Microsoft's top developers are taking deep dives into tech ranging from AI apps to .NET MAUI at next week's Visual Studio Live! dev conference in Redmond, with live commentary from the company's Visual Studio Toolbox video team for some Tuesday sessions.
07/31/2025
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The update aims to streamline development with a native AOT-compiled CLI for application scaffolding, running, and configuration.
07/30/2025
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Learn how to scale Microsoft 365 Copilot responsibly with expert guidance on governance, adoption frameworks, change management, and metrics in this session led by Michelle Gilbert at Live! 360 coming to Orlando in November.
07/29/2025
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The tool provides automated code fixes, predefined migration tasks, and recommendations for Azure services, accelerating enterprise cloud modernization.
07/28/2025
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TypeScript 5.9 RC arrives with import defer for deferred module evaluation, stable Node.js 20 module targeting, and refined editor hover tooltips. It also brings compiler performance gains and notable breaking changes for developers -- GA within a week.
07/25/2025
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An exec's off-hand comments resulted in a revelation about technical debt that has guided senior systems architect Chad Green's thinking and even served as the impetus for his session at VSLive! San Diego 2025. In this Q&A, he shares that phrase, how it has shaped his approach to technical debt, and what attendees can expect to learn in his Sept. 9 session.
07/23/2025
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Devs weren't shy about responding to a recent social media post from the VS Code Team's Burke Holland, who asked for feedback on the editor, including GitHub Copilot.
07/23/2025
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AWS has launched Kiro, a spec-driven, agentic AI IDE based on Visual Studio Code. It joins a growing lineup of VS Code forks built for AI-assisted development, and it arrives just as Microsoft pushes to make the open-source core of VS Code fully AI-native.
07/21/2025