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Microsoft released a new Visual Studio 2026 Insiders build (version 11104.47) that, according to their announcement, brings performance improvements--especially in startup speed and hot-reload.
10/08/2025
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A roundup of the six most-installed "agentic" AI extensions in the VS Code Marketplace reveals how tools like Cline, BLACKBOXAI Agent, Continue, Codex, Roo Code, and Qodo Gen are transforming code editors into autonomous, context-aware development partners.
10/07/2025
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Q&A
As CI/CD pipelines become foundational to modern software development, they also become high-value targets for attackers. From insecure 3rd-party dependencies to exposed secrets, the risks are real--and growing. At Visual Studio Live! this November, GitHub Staff DevOps Architect Ken Muse will deliver a practical, strategy-packed session focused on hardening your CI/CD processes against these threats.
10/06/2025
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Microsoft’s latest Visual Studio AI roadmap reveals plans to natively integrate remote AI agents--like the GitHub Copilot Coding Agent--directly into Copilot Chat, alongside a wave of improvements spanning agent performance, chat functionality, and new model support.
10/06/2025
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Microsoft today announced that the brand-new Visual Studio 2026 will be the star of the show at the Visual Studio Live! developer conference in Orlando in November.
10/02/2025
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Microsoft has brought its Go-based native TypeScript compiler to Visual Studio 2026 Insiders, marking a major milestone in the move toward TypeScript 7 with up to 10x performance gains and a dual-track roadmap alongside the current JavaScript-based compiler.
10/02/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression with two-way interactions between predictor variables. Standard linear regression predicts a single numeric value based only on a linear combination of predictor values. Linear regression with interactions between predictor variables can handle more complex data while retaining a high level of model interpretability.
10/01/2025
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Microsoft launched the open-source Microsoft Agent Framework, unifying Semantic Kernel and AutoGen to simplify building, orchestrating, and deploying AI agents and workflows in Python and .NET.
10/01/2025
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Microsoft released .NET Aspire 9.5 with a single-file AppHost option, a new Generative AI Visualizer, expanded integrations for GitHub Models, Azure AI Foundry, and OpenAI, along with lifecycle and logging improvements for distributed cloud-native .NET applications.
09/29/2025
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GitHub Copilot app modernization is now generally available in Visual Studio, providing AI-powered upgrades and Azure migration for .NET apps, with automated remediation, CVE scanning, and containerization support.
09/25/2025
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Q&A
Lino Tadros discusses how Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry enables developers to build and deploy intelligent, secure, and scalable AI agents for enterprise environments in this Q&A in advance of his Live! 360 Orlando workshop.
09/23/2025
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Q&A
Microsoft PM Carlos Robles previews his Live! 360 Orlando session on how recent updates to the MSSQL extension—like GitHub Copilot integration, Schema Designer, and local SQL containers—are transforming SQL development inside Visual Studio Code. Designed for developers, not DBAs, the session showcases how VS Code can streamline database work and unify application and SQL workflows in one tool.
09/22/2025
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Keep asking; it ain't happening. Microsoft has reaffirmed that its full-featured Visual Studio IDE will remain exclusive to Windows, ending a years-long debate over bringing it to Linux and macOS by directing developers to use Visual Studio Code for cross-platform development.
09/22/2025
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Microsoft updated the free MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code with public preview support for browsing Microsoft Fabric workspaces and provisioning SQL Database in Fabric from within VS Code, plus GitHub Copilot slash commands and reliability fixes; the extension also supports connecting to SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric via the standard connection experience.
09/18/2025
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Gartner's new Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants report shows GitHub Copilot leading the market while forecasting near-universal enterprise adoption of AI coding assistants by 2028.
09/17/2025
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In-Depth
Learn how to work with streaming data using Microsoft Fabric, KQL, and Real-Time Intelligence in this full-day Live! 360 workshop led by Matt Gordon (Apps Associates) and Christopher Schmidt (Microsoft). The session focuses on building real-time, event-driven solutions that deliver business value fast.
09/16/2025
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Microsoft has published a new post explaining GitHub Spec Kit, clarifying its experimental approach to spec-driven development and how its Specify CLI, prompts, and templates structure AI coding into specify/plan/tasks phases.
09/16/2025
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Microsoft released .NET 10 RC 1 with a go-live license (production supported through Oct. 14, 2025), highlighting updates across ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, EF Core, Libraries, and WinForms, with testing supported in Visual Studio 2026 Insiders and VS Code’s C# Dev Kit.
09/16/2025
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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 the kernel matrix inverse (Cholesky decomposition) technique for model training. There is no single best machine learning regression technique, but when kernel ridge regression prediction works, it is often highly accurate.
09/15/2025
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Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.104, adding Auto model selection and support for contributed language models in chat, alongside security, productivity, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) improvements.
09/11/2025
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Microsoft unveiled Visual Studio 2026 Insiders at VSLive! San Diego, introducing deep GitHub Copilot integration, performance and productivity upgrades, a Fluent UI redesign with new themes, and the new Insiders Channel to replace Preview.
09/09/2025
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Microsoft introduced the Awesome Copilot MCP Server for GitHub Copilot customizations as the MCP community unveiled the official MCP Registry, a cross-company catalog for discovering servers.
09/09/2025
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Microsoft Copilot Studio now offers near-real-time protection for AI agents in public preview, enabling integration with Defender and third-party systems to block unsafe actions during runtime.
09/08/2025
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Azure AI Foundry’s August 2025 update brings the GPT-5 family of models, previews a new Browser Automation tool, and expands Agent Service availability to more regions.
09/08/2025
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By integrating GitHub Copilot directly into Visual Studio's diagnostic workflow, the new Copilot Diagnostics toolset promises to transform how developers identify, understand, and resolve performance issues and bugs.
09/04/2025
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GitHub’s open-source Spec Kit formalizes spec-driven development for AI coding agents by providing a CLI, templates, and prompts that move work through specification, plan, tasks, and implementation, with details in the announcement and code in the repository.
09/03/2025
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Microsoft detailed its plans for advanced AI in its flagship IDE in September, with new modes for debugging and profiling, as well as enhancements for agentic DevOps, in the works.
09/03/2025