Combit released List & Label 31, introducing a cross-platform .NET engine, AI-powered reporting features, and expanded integration for Avalonia, Blazor, and cloud environments like Azure and AWS.
Microsoft released .NET 10 RC2 with go-live support and final stabilization updates, highlighting collaboration with Uno Platform to align .NET MAUI with Android 16 and extend cross-platform support ahead of general availability.
Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of Tsetlin Machine binary classification using the C# language. Tsetlin Machine models have characteristics of propositional logic, rule-based systems, and finite state automata. Tsetlin Machine systems require predictor values to be binary encoded and therefore the systems are very flexible and computationally efficient in terms of each operation, but computationally expensive in terms of number of operations.
- By James McCaffrey
- 10/15/2025
Amazon Web Services released Version 2.0 of the AWS Deploy Tool for .NET, requiring .NET 8 and adding support for Podman, .NET 10 deployments, and upgraded SDK and CLI foundations for improved developer workflows.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The 2025 Reader's Choice Awards recognize the solutions developers themselves rely on every day to build, test, deploy and maintain world-class applications.
- By Visual Studio Magazine Editors
- 08/14/2025