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A recursive vibe journalism experiment in which Microsoft 365 Copilot's "Prompt Coach" agent is used to wholly create an article on how to use "Prompt Coach" agent to prompt M365 Copilot.
01/22/2026
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of quadratic regression, implemented from scratch, with SGD training, using C#. Compared to standard linear regression, quadratic regression is better able to handle data with a non-linear structure, and data with interactions between predictor variables.
01/21/2026
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A review of five non-Copilot AI coding assistants available in the Visual Studio Marketplace that support Visual Studio 2026 and exceed 100,000 installs.
01/20/2026
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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.
01/20/2026
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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.
01/14/2026
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Engineering Manager Semira Allen examines how developers and teams can respond to failure with resilience, psychological safety, and accountability rather than blame.
01/13/2026
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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.
01/11/2026
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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.
01/09/2026
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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.
01/07/2026
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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, implemented using JavaScript. The demo trains the model using kernel matrix inverse (Cholesky decomposition). There is no single best machine learning regression technique, but when kernel ridge regression prediction works, it is often highly accurate.
01/06/2026
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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.
12/16/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression using pseudo-inverse training. Compared to other training techniques, such as stochastic gradient descent, pseudo-inverse training does not require any parameters and so it is especially simple to use.
12/15/2025
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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.
12/10/2025
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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.
12/05/2025
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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.
12/04/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of anomaly detection using k-means data clustering, implemented with JavaScript. Compared to other anomaly detection techniques, k-means anomaly detection is simple to implement, simple to interpret, and simple to customize.
12/01/2025
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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
11/24/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression from scratch using the C# language. The goal of decision tree regression is to predict a single numeric value. The demo implementation uses pointers (references) for efficiency but does not use any recursion for better maintainability and customization.
11/20/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of ANOVA (analysis of variance) using JavaScript. ANOVA is a classical statistics technique where the goal is to determine if the unknown means (averages) of three or more groups are likely to all be equal or not, based on the variances of samples from the groups.
11/03/2025
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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.
10/16/2025
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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.
10/15/2025
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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
10/14/2025
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A roundup of the six most-installed "agentic" AI extensions in the VS Code Marketplace reveals how tools like Cline, BLACKBOXAI Agent, Continue, Codex, Roo Code, and Qodo Gen are transforming code editors into autonomous, context-aware development partners.
10/07/2025
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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.
10/06/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression with two-way interactions between predictor variables. Standard linear regression predicts a single numeric value based only on a linear combination of predictor values. Linear regression with interactions between predictor variables can handle more complex data while retaining a high level of model interpretability.
10/01/2025