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  Microsoft Highlights Visual Studio Live! Event Lineup and Longtime Developer Community Role

  A Microsoft MVP Blog post on Visual Studio Live!'s longevity arrives as the 2026 conference series continues with upcoming stops at Microsoft HQ, San Diego and Orlando.
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  Using Local AI to Cut Copilot Usage-Based Billing Shock

  After being gobsmacked by the new billing plan using almost all my monthly credits in one or two days, I tried pushing some Copilot-style coding work onto local models in VS Code. What I found was less "free AI" and more "pick your pain": cloud charges on one side, heavy local resource use and long waits on the other.
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  .NET 11 Preview 5 Focuses on Performance, Productivity and Safer Code

  .NET 11 Preview 5 focuses on under-the-hood runtime performance gains, streamlined APIs and language features that reduce boilerplate, plus built‑in security checks and incremental ASP.NET Core and EF Core improvements aimed at everyday developer productivity.
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  VS Code 1.124 Focuses on Agent Autonomy and Parallel Sessions

  Microsoft's June 2026 VS Code update turns on Autopilot by default and adds background sending for agent sessions.