Learn how to supercharge your GenAI apps with PostgreSQL and Azure AI. Lino Tadros shows how PGVector and AI Extensions in VS Code turn PostgreSQL into an intelligent foundation for high-performance GenAI systems--solving common RAG pitfalls like irrelevance and hallucination.
What a difference a year makes in the fast-moving advanced-AI space! GitHub Copilot's vision and image-based features arrived first in VS Code in February 2025 and have since become more integrated there, while Visual Studio is beginning to add similar capabilities through Copilot Chat in a more limited form. Here's a hands-on demo of what you can do now in both.
Engineering Manager Semira Allen examines how developers and teams can respond to failure with resilience, psychological safety, and accountability rather than blame.
Visual Studio Code 1.108 introduces Agent Skills for GitHub Copilot, enabling developers to define reusable, domain-specific automation that can handle everything from code refactoring to custom text and formatting cleanup.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
At the upcoming Lived! 360 Orlando 2025 conference, Tim Purdum, Engineering Manager and Senior Software Engineer at dymaptic, will introduce JavaScript developers to the world of Blazor -- Microsoft’s modern web UI framework that lets developers build rich, interactive applications using C# and .NET instead of JavaScript.
Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. To help meet that challenge, Gilda Alvarez will explain the nuts and bolts at the upcoming Live! 360 dev/tech conference
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.