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Lino Tadros discusses how Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry enables developers to build and deploy intelligent, secure, and scalable AI agents for enterprise environments in this Q&A in advance of his Live! 360 Orlando workshop.
09/23/2025
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Microsoft PM Carlos Robles previews his Live! 360 Orlando session on how recent updates to the MSSQL extension—like GitHub Copilot integration, Schema Designer, and local SQL containers—are transforming SQL development inside Visual Studio Code. Designed for developers, not DBAs, the session showcases how VS Code can streamline database work and unify application and SQL workflows in one tool.
09/22/2025
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Learn how to work with streaming data using Microsoft Fabric, KQL, and Real-Time Intelligence in this full-day Live! 360 workshop led by Matt Gordon (Apps Associates) and Christopher Schmidt (Microsoft). The session focuses on building real-time, event-driven solutions that deliver business value fast.
09/16/2025
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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 the kernel matrix inverse (Cholesky decomposition) technique for model training. There is no single best machine learning regression technique, but when kernel ridge regression prediction works, it is often highly accurate.
09/15/2025
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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, but when kernel ridge regression prediction works, it is often very accurate.
09/02/2025
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Microsoft’s Bradley Ball dives into the inner workings of SQL Server indexing to help developers and DBAs speak the same language, avoid common pitfalls, and boost performance with smarter, more intentional index design.
08/20/2025
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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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Learn what Project Orleans, an open-source, cross-platform framework from Microsoft for building distributed, scalable, and high-availability applications using the virtual actor model.
08/13/2025
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In this session preview, Roy Cornelissen explains how messaging frameworks like NServiceBus, MassTransit, Dapr, and Wolverine can help .NET teams build scalable, event-driven applications — and how to choose the right one for your architecture.
08/11/2025
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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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Learn how to build high-performance, secure APIs in .NET 9 with real-world guidance from architect Tony Champion, who will explore best practices for scalability, rate limiting, versioning, and more.
08/05/2025
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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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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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An exec's off-hand comments resulted in a revelation about technical debt that has guided senior systems architect Chad Green's thinking and even served as the impetus for his session at VSLive! San Diego 2025. In this Q&A, he shares that phrase, how it has shaped his approach to technical debt, and what attendees can expect to learn in his Sept. 9 session.
07/23/2025
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Two of the three offerings bring AI-assisted productivity to .NET and cross-platform app developers. Highlights include AI coding assistants, low-code view generators, new UI components, and enhanced design-time tools.
07/18/2025
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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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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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Learn from expert trainer Randy Pagels how GitHub Advanced Security’s AI-powered autofix, secret scanning, and CodeQL analysis help developers secure code early -- without slowing down delivery.
06/17/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of computing a matrix inverse using the Cayley-Hamilton technique. Compared to other matrix inverse algorithms, Cayley-Hamilton is very simple and as a nice side effect gives you the matrix determinant. However, Cayley-Hamilton is not suitable for use with large matrices.
06/16/2025
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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke shared a tip for faster "vibe coding" in VS Code’s agent mode, one more step toward making Copilot feel like an autonomous AI coding assistant.
06/13/2025
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VS Code tools for riding the vibe and letting AI bring your programming dreams to life.
06/05/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the linear support vector regression (linear SVR) technique, where the goal is to predict a single numeric value. A linear SVR model uses an unusual error/loss function and cannot be trained using standard techniques, and so particle swarm optimization training is used.
06/03/2025
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Bring AI to your database! Learn how to build smarter apps with vector search in SQL Server & Azure Cosmos DB -- no extra AI stack required.
05/27/2025
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Karen Lopez will explain the ethical guidance that underpins responsible AI development, with a special focus on large language models, at VSLive! San Diego in July.
05/22/2025