• News

    Visual Studio 2026 Gets New AI Features in November Update

    Microsoft has been busy adding new features to Visual Studio 2026, which reached general availability on Nov. 11, including several new features driven by AI to enhance developer workflow. 12/03/2025

  • News

    Microsoft Gets 'Real' on Native TypeScript Remake

    Microsoft says its Go-based "native" TypeScript 7 compiler and language service are now stable enough for everyday editor and CLI use, delivering big speed gains and near-complete type-checking parity, while setting TypeScript 6.0 as the final JavaScript-based release and outlining remaining emit and tooling-API gaps. 12/02/2025

  • News

    Microsoft Brings Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 to Foundry Preview

    Microsoft has added Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 to Microsoft Foundry in public preview, highlighting benchmark gains for coding and tool use, new agent-building controls in Foundry, expanded vision and computer-use capabilities, and updated pricing and regional availability. 12/02/2025

  • Anomaly Detection Using K-Means Clustering with JavaScript

    Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of anomaly detection using k-means data clustering, implemented with JavaScript. Compared to other anomaly detection techniques, k-means anomaly detection is simple to implement, simple to interpret, and simple to customize. 12/01/2025

  • News

    Microsoft Pushes OData Forward with New Previews

    Once-buzzy OData continues to move forward at Microsoft, with new .NET 10-aligned tooling previews and an ODataX proposal aimed at easing adoption while preserving the protocol's enterprise-strength querying model. 12/01/2025

  • Q&A

    Building Reliable AI Agents with Azure Functions, Foundry and the MCP

    Learn how to build production-ready AI agents using Azure Functions, Microsoft Foundry, and the MCP in this deep-dive with Microsoft’s Thiago Almeida 11/24/2025

  • News

    Google's Antigravity IDE Sparks Forking Debate

    Google's new Antigravity IDE spurred much developer debate focusing heavily on its apparent status as a Visual Studio Code fork, with developers debating why another fork is needed, what it means for the VS Code ecosystem, and how open source reuse, lock-in, and fragmentation should be handled in AI-focused development tools. 11/21/2025

  • News

    'VS Code for the Web -- Azure' Adds Faster Entry Points for Browser-Based Cloud Development

    Microsoft expanded VS Code for the Web -- Azure with new ways to open AI-generated code directly in the browser-based workspace while continuing to evolve the environment beyond its preview phases. 11/20/2025

  • News

    Google Joins AI IDE Race to Compete with VS Code, Apparently Forking VS Code

    Google has introduced Antigravity, an agent-first IDE built around Gemini 3 and other LLMs that enters the AI IDE arena alongside Visual Studio Code, amid many reports and clues that it may be based on a VS Code fork. 11/20/2025

  • Decision Tree Regression from Scratch with Pointers Using C#

    Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression from scratch using the C# language. The goal of decision tree regression is to predict a single numeric value. The demo implementation uses pointers (references) for efficiency but does not use any recursion for better maintainability and customization. 11/20/2025

  • News

    How Blazor's Unified Rendering Model Shapes Modern .NET Web Apps

    Allen Conway explained how Blazor's render tree, component lifecycle, and modern rendering modes introduced in .NET 8 and refined in .NET 9 and .NET 10 give developers flexible, efficient options for building interactive web applications. 11/19/2025

  • News

    Azure Developer CLI Adds AI Agent Extension for Foundry Deployments

    Microsoft introduced a new azd AI agent extension that lets developers build and deploy Microsoft Foundry agents directly from their local development environments. 11/19/2025

  • News

    Azure Cosmos DB Adds New AI Search and Agentic Capabilities at Ignite

    Microsoft expanded Azure Cosmos DB's AI capabilities at Ignite 2025, adding new vector and full-text search features, Semantic Reranking and an MCP Toolkit for agentic applications. 11/19/2025

  • News

    What's New for C# 14 and F# 10 in .NET 10

    Microsoft's C# 14 and F# 10 updates ship with .NET 10, adding new language features, tooling improvements and refinement-focused enhancements across both ecosystems. Extension member functionality highlights C# 14, while F# 10 gets scoped warning suppression in a release emphasizing refinement and consistency. 11/17/2025

  • News

    GPT-5.1 Now Available in Microsoft Copilot Studio as Experimental Model

    Microsoft added GPT-5.1 as an experimental model in Copilot Studio for early release Power Platform environments, enabling customers to test new capabilities ahead of general availability. 11/17/2025

  • News

    OpenAPI.NET Delivers Its 'Biggest Update Ever' With Twin v2 and v3 Releases

    Microsoft announced two new OpenAPI.NET releases that it describes as the library's biggest update ever, adding OpenAPI 3.1 and 3.2 support along with performance and reliability improvements. 11/14/2025

  • News

    Visual Studio 2026 Integrates Azure MCP Server for Agentic Cloud Workflows

    Microsoft has added the Azure MCP Server directly into Visual Studio 2026, enabling developers to manage Azure resources through natural-language interactions inside the IDE, which the company says now stands for "Intelligent Developer Environment." 11/14/2025

  • News

    Microsoft Reaches Second Milestone in Open-Source AI Editing for VS Code

    Microsoft open sourced the inline suggestions system in VS Code, marking the second milestone in its plan to build an open-source AI editor and continuing the work detailed in the first milestone reported earlier this year. 11/13/2025

  • News

    Uno Platform Studio 2.0 Adds New AI Tools for Cross-Platform .NET Development

    Uno Platform released Studio 2.0, adding new AI-driven design, documentation, and runtime interaction tools to streamline cross-platform .NET development. 11/13/2025

  • News

    Microsoft Releases Aspire 13, Dropping the .NET Part

    Microsoft released Aspire 13 at .NET Conf 2025, adding AI integration through the Model Context Protocol and introducing the “Aspireify anything” concept to bring any app into its distributed development framework. The update also adds new pipeline automation, expanded JavaScript and Python support, and a redesigned developer experience. 11/12/2025

  • News

    Visual Studio 2026 GA: 'First Intelligent Developer Environment (IDE)'

    Visual Studio 2026 debuts as the world’s first AI-native IDE, introducing intelligent agents, faster performance, and full compatibility with .NET 10 and existing extensions. The release adds Copilot Workspace integration, improved Azure DevOps tooling, and a redesigned, more responsive user experience. 11/12/2025

  • News

    .NET 10 Arrives with AI Integration, Performance Boosts, and New Tools

    Microsoft's .NET 10 release highlights AI integration through the new Microsoft Agent Framework and related extensions, alongside significant performance, language, and tooling upgrades across the ecosystem. 11/12/2025

  • News

    VS Code 1.106 (October Update) Adds Agent HQ, New Security Controls

    The October 2025 update to Visual Studio Code (v1.106) introduces Agent HQ for managing AI agents, expands Model Context Protocol authentication, and delivers improvements to security, trust, and the overall coding experience. 11/12/2025

  • News

    GitHub Copilot Adds 'Auto Model' Selection Preview for Smarter, Faster Responses

    Microsoft introduced a new auto model selection feature in Visual Studio's Copilot Chat that automatically chooses the best available AI model for each session, improving performance and efficiency while offering paid users faster responses and a 10% discount on premium requests. 11/12/2025

  • News

    Microsoft Details How 'Agents Took Over VS Code in 2025'

    Microsoft's unified agent experience in VS Code consolidates Copilot, Codex, and custom agents, introducing Agent Sessions, a Planning agent, and subagent tools for context-aware, multi-agent development. 11/05/2025

  • News

    Custom Agents Lead Microsoft AI Roadmap for Visual Studio

    Microsoft's November Visual Studio roadmap outlines in-progress work on multi-agent support, enhanced chat and planning, MCP integration with governance, and expanded model management, reflecting continued investment in AI-driven development workflows. 11/05/2025

  • ANOVA Using JavaScript

    Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of ANOVA (analysis of variance) using JavaScript. ANOVA is a classical statistics technique where the goal is to determine if the unknown means (averages) of three or more groups are likely to all be equal or not, based on the variances of samples from the groups. 11/03/2025

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