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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 stochastic gradient descent, one of two possible training techniques. There is no single best machine learning regression technique, but when kernel ridge regression prediction works, it is often very accurate.
09/02/2025
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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.
08/26/2025
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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.
08/25/2025
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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.
08/21/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of computing the determinant of a matrix using the C# language. In machine learning scenarios, computing the determinant of a matrix is typically used during model training to determine if a matrix has an inverse or not.
08/19/2025
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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.
08/14/2025
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Microsoft today announced OpenAI's latest and greatest frontier AI model is now available to the GitHub Copilot tool within the company's flagship Visual Studio IDE, just days after it was released.
08/12/2025
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The July 2025 update to Visual Studio Code (v1.103) introduces Chat Checkpoints for restoring AI-driven code sessions and a set of enhancements to the Model Context Protocol (MCP), boosting tool capacity, reliability, and configurability in agent mode.
08/07/2025
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At Live! 360 in Orlando this November, data & AI engineer Jean Joseph will demonstrate how to build AI-powered applications with Azure Database for PostgreSQL. His session covers vector search, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for real-world AI use cases, showing how PostgreSQL with Azure extensions can deliver semantic search, recommendations, and chatbots directly from within the database.
08/07/2025
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Microsoft is rolling out OpenAI's new open-weight models across Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry, empowering developers to run, customize, and deploy AI on their terms--from cloud to edge.
08/06/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of k-nearest neighbors regression using JavaScript. There are many machine learning regression techniques, but k-nearest neighbors is especially simple to implement and the results are highly interpretable.
08/04/2025
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"The newer AI-enabled editors like Claude Code and Cursor are attracting interest from developers already using the industry standard IDE, VS Code."
08/01/2025
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Learn how to scale Microsoft 365 Copilot responsibly with expert guidance on governance, adoption frameworks, change management, and metrics in this session led by Michelle Gilbert at Live! 360 coming to Orlando in November.
07/29/2025
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The tool provides automated code fixes, predefined migration tasks, and recommendations for Azure services, accelerating enterprise cloud modernization.
07/28/2025
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AWS has launched Kiro, a spec-driven, agentic AI IDE based on Visual Studio Code. It joins a growing lineup of VS Code forks built for AI-assisted development, and it arrives just as Microsoft pushes to make the open-source core of VS Code fully AI-native.
07/21/2025
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The .NET MAUI team is pursuing a dream scenario where GitHub Copilot handles a straightforward issue all by itself with just minimal initial instructions.
07/15/2025
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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 stochastic gradient descent, one of two possible training techniques. There is no single best machine learning regression technique. When kernel ridge regression prediction works, it is often highly accurate.
07/14/2025
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VS Code’s June 2025 update supercharges GitHub Copilot with new chat customization tools, smarter inline completions, and an open-source Copilot Chat extension that makes AI-assisted coding more transparent and flexible.
07/14/2025
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Replit has partnered with Microsoft to bring its AI-powered, natural language coding platform to Azure, enabling enterprise workers to build and deploy software without writing code—marking a major step toward agentic, no-code application development at scale.
07/10/2025
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GitHub Copilot tops a new AI coding survey, outpacing rivals as devs embrace tools, vibe coding, and productivity gains.
07/09/2025
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Microsoft has brought OpenAI's Deep Research model to Azure AI Foundry, giving developers API and SDK access to autonomous research agents that gather, analyze, and report on web-scale data. Now in public preview, the capability powers enterprise workflows with reasoning-grade intelligence and programmable orchestration.
07/08/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression using JavaScript. Linear regression is the simplest machine learning technique to predict a single numeric value, and a good way to establish baseline results for comparison with other more sophisticated regression techniques.
07/07/2025
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At Visual Studio Live! San Diego, Ginger Grant of Desert Isle Group will lead a practical, demo-driven session on how to build simple yet powerful chatbots using Microsoft Fabric lakehouses and warehouses. Attendees will learn how to use AI skills and grounding techniques to enable conversational data access -- quickly and cost-effectively. Ideal for developers ready to extend analytics with conversational interfaces.
07/01/2025
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"Explore the codebase and learn how agent mode is implemented, what context is sent to LLMs, and how we engineer our prompts."
06/30/2025
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Microsoft has open sourced the GitHub Copilot Chat extension, marking a major step in turning VS Code into an open-source AI editor focused on transparency, collaboration, and community-driven development.
06/30/2025