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Microsoft's June 2026 VS Code update turns on Autopilot by default and adds background sending for agent sessions.
06/11/2026
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ZioNet founder Alon Fliess previews his Visual Studio Live! San Diego session on building true agentic systems in .NET -- covering the cognitive loop, MCP tool integration, multi-agent orchestration and enterprise hosting and governance with the Microsoft Agent Framework.
06/11/2026
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Two Microsoft experts explain how GitHub Copilot is evolving from a coding assistant into a broader platform for building, customizing and testing AI-powered developer workflows.
06/09/2026
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Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.123 on June 3, adding agent-focused features, larger model context support, integrated browser updates and a new delay for some automatic extension updates.
06/04/2026
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Developer complaints about GitHub Copilot's new usage-based billing model have centered on unexpectedly rapid AI credit consumption, and neither GitHub nor Microsoft has responded directly to the backlash, though they have previously published guidance to lessen model usage costs.
06/04/2026
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GitHub's brand-new Copilot desktop app, in technical preview, handled a small Blazor issue from planning through pull request creation, but the hands-on test also showed why developers still need to verify agent work in the running app before merging.
06/03/2026
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Microsoft's Build 2026 Windows developer announcements point to a broader platform strategy for agentic AI, spanning terminal workflows, local models, app-building skills, Cloud PCs and operating system-level containment.
06/02/2026
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A journalist using GitHub Copilot Pro details how a broken editorial workflow on day one of usage-based billing led to runaway token consumption, a projected $180 monthly bill, and practical tactics for cutting AI credit burn.
06/02/2026
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AdaBoost.R2 regression works by building an ensemble of decision trees, training them on reweighted data, and combining their predictions with a weighted median, while also showing how parameter choices affect accuracy and overfitting.
06/01/2026
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Microsoft's May 2026 VS Code update makes BYOK usable in restricted environments while adding agent, browser and issue-reporting updates.
05/29/2026
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Microsoft highlighted Copilot planning, context visibility, diff review updates and MSVC Build Tools v14.51 in its May Visual Studio update.
05/26/2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.121 focuses on agent workflows, model configuration, terminal behavior and built-in preview features -- and features another update to Claude Code functionality.
05/20/2026
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This hands-on build shows how Agent Mode in Visual Studio 2026 -- Insiders now, stable soon --can create and operationalize a custom Copilot skill that automates feature-parity tracking with practical system integration and measurable reporting value.
05/15/2026
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Microsoft announced a new VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026, an in-person build event at its Redmond campus focused on Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, GitHub Copilot and agent-based development.
05/14/2026
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VS Code 1.120 brings the Agents window to Stable preview, giving AI agent sessions and customizations a dedicated workspace.
05/13/2026
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Simona Liao and Leah Tran, product managers at Microsoft, discuss how GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio has evolved from a code completion tool into an agent-driven development workflow -- and share practical tips for developers and teams looking to integrate AI into their everyday processes.
05/12/2026
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GitHub Spec Kit, open sourced last September as a toolkit for spec-driven development with AI coding agents, is seeing renewed attention as recent releases and a May 8 livestream show the project expanding around the idea that code should be generated from, governed by and traceable to specifications.
05/12/2026
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A hands-on Blazor test shows how VS Code 1.119 makes agent browser sharing more visible, permissioned and chat-driven.
05/11/2026
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The new weekly update focuses on agent workflows, observability, trust controls, Markdown usability and engineering changes.
05/07/2026
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Rockford Lhotka previews his Visual Studio Live! San Diego session, "MCP Magic," and explains why the Model Context Protocol is becoming a key building block for AI agents. In this Q&A, he discusses how C# developers can build MCP servers, connect them to agents, and design tool layers that are useful, scalable, and production-ready.
05/07/2026
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Microsoft's Mads Kristensen said subagents are "coming soon" to Copilot in Visual Studio, while VS Code already documents subagent support across context isolation, custom agents, parallel execution and search.
05/06/2026
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Microsoft Product Manager Mike Kistler previews his Visual Studio Live! session on how MCP servers give .NET developers a universal standard for connecting AI models to external data and tools -- and how to build them with the C# SDK. Microsoft's Leslie Richardson is a co-presenter.
05/05/2026
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Reflecting a broader trend of Microsoft embracing Claude AI, recent VS Code updates show the company accommodating Claude Code beyond model selection, with support for Claude-specific instruction files, rules, agents, skills, hooks and plugin conventions.
05/04/2026
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of quadratic regression, implemented from scratch, with pseudo-inverse training, using the C# language. Compared to standard linear regression, quadratic regression is better able to handle data with a non-linear structure and interactions between predictor variables. Compared to other types of training, pseudo-inverse does not require any parameters that must be determined by trial and error.
05/01/2026
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Just two days after GitHub announced usage-based billing for Copilot, Microsoft shipped VS Code 1.118 -- under its new weekly release cadence -- with significant token efficiency improvements designed to keep costs down when the meter starts running June 1.
04/30/2026