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In-Depth
After a long-unused VS Code extension stopped working, I compared multiple AI tools to recreate the same HTML-wrapping workflow using built-in snippets and keybindings. Mileage among the systems varied. And the approach I used for my text-writing use case can be easily translated to coding scenarios.
01/09/2026
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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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Q&A
At the upcoming Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas developer conference, SQL expert Denny Cherry will share essential indexing strategies to boost performance in SQL Server databases--from 2000 to 2025. Here, Denny explains more about his session in which .NET devs can learn best practices, common mistakes, and how to optimize apps with smarter indexing.
01/07/2026
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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, implemented using JavaScript. The demo trains the model using kernel matrix inverse (Cholesky decomposition). There is no single best machine learning regression technique, but when kernel ridge regression prediction works, it is often highly accurate.
01/06/2026
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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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Microsoft was again named a Leader in Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms, highlighting Azure AI Foundry’s enterprise focus.
12/18/2025
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Microsoft has begun decommissioning IntelliCode in VS Code, ending free local AI-assisted completions and shifting its developer AI strategy fully to subscription-based GitHub Copilot.
12/17/2025
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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
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression using pseudo-inverse training. Compared to other training techniques, such as stochastic gradient descent, pseudo-inverse training does not require any parameters and so it is especially simple to use.
12/15/2025
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GitHub Spark, an AI app-generation tool separate from Copilot still in public preview, gains enterprise, billing, and UI upgrades in its latest update.
12/12/2025
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Microsoft's November 2025 Visual Studio Code update (version 1.107) advances multi-agent orchestration for GitHub Copilot and custom agents, adds a centralized Language Models editor and new safety controls, and continues work on TypeScript 7 and MCP integration.
12/12/2025
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dtSearch version 2025.02 extends its search engine line with new Linux ARM64 support, updated x64/ARM64 builds for Windows and macOS, and enhanced JSON/CSV handling for high-volume enterprise and developer workloads.
12/11/2025
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Senior software engineer Fatima Taj shares how to avoid getting stuck in “glue work” -- the coordination tasks that keep teams running but can stall career growth -- offering strategies to rebalance workloads and stay on track for advancement.
12/10/2025
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Microsoft previews a GitHub Copilot-powered VS Code Insiders tool that modernizes JavaScript/TypeScript apps by upgrading npm dependencies and fixing breaking changes.
12/10/2025
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Azure DevOps Server is now generally available as Microsoft’s production-ready, self-hosted DevOps platform, with ongoing updates and Git-first enhancements.
12/09/2025
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GitHub changelog posts detail new Copilot Spaces sharing features, a Visual Studio Copilot update, and public preview access to OpenAI's GPT-5.1-Codex-Max model.
12/09/2025
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Microsoft is expanding Azure's AI stack with more model choices in Microsoft Foundry and more flexible hybrid and sovereign deployment paths, reinforcing a build-on-Azure-AI, deploy-where-needed approach.
12/09/2025
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Aspire 13 adds official, first-class Python support so distributed apps can orchestrate Python services natively alongside other Aspire resources.
12/08/2025
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Threat actors are still abusing Visual Studio Code extensions as an entry point, with the latest fake Prettier incident showing a multi-stage path from marketplace install to credential theft and full remote access.
12/08/2025
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In-Depth
Expert consultant Greg Shulz said next-generation data visualization requires modernizing the full pipeline from data preparation through AI-governed analytics to interactive, story-driven presentation in order to reduce mean time to insight.
12/05/2025
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Microsoft has launched the VS Code Insiders Podcast, a new behind-the-scenes audio show that digs into experimental features, the people building them and what may be coming next to Visual Studio Code.
12/05/2025
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GitHub Copilot users can now select Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 model in chat across Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio (plus several other IDEs) during a new public preview.
12/04/2025
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Microsoft Foundry has introduced a preview cloud-hosted Foundry MCP Server that lets AI agents securely access Foundry tools for model, agent, deployment, and evaluation workflows from VS Code, Visual Studio, or Foundry itself
12/04/2025
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Explore the real reasons software projects struggle -- and how to fix -- them in a hands-on lab presented by Benjamin Day and Angela Dugan, who will reveal practical strategies for improving communication, avoiding burnout, and building healthier, higher-performing teams at Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026.
12/04/2025
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Since its Nov. 11 debut, Visual Studio 2026 sees improved Copilot Chat response quality by enhancing semantic code search with remote indexes, expanding awareness of external C# symbols, and increasing accuracy when developers reference specific line numbers, alongside new Copilot features like a GitHub Cloud Agent preview, context-menu actions, and intent detection in All-In-One Search.
12/03/2025