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News
Microsoft this week shipped the fourth preview of .NET 10 without groundbreaking features but with much work devoted to ASP.NET Core & Blazor, where several work items were devoted to OpenAPI.
05/15/2025
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News
Agent mode, now in public preview for Visual Studio 17.14, marks a major step forward for AI-assisted development. Unlike previous Copilot features, agent mode can autonomously plan, edit, iterate, and invoke trusted tools-completing complex coding tasks from a single natural language prompt.
05/13/2025
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Microsoft, contradicting beliefs of Java developers responding to a survey, said they don't need to learn AI, master machine learning, or switch to Python to build intelligent, production-ready applications.
05/13/2025
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Q&A
Eric D. Boyd of responsiveX previews his VSLive! 2025 session at Microsoft HQ in August where he explains how Azure ML empowers teams to build, deploy, and manage machine learning models with ease and confidence.
05/13/2025
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News
The new way to get the most out of GitHub Copilot is from markdown prompting, or writing detailed, reusable natural-language instructions in files like README.md or copilot-instructions.md to guide different AI models in generating context-aware, accurate code.
05/12/2025
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Uno Platform, a .NET-centric open source project for building single-codebase apps across multiple platforms, this week announced v6.0 of its flagship offering, which introduces a zero-install, web-based IDE for rapid cross-platform development, alongside a modernized app architecture that embraces MVU and .NET-style extensions.
05/09/2025
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"What MCP server would be helpful to use with Copilot in Visual Studio? I want to write one."
05/08/2025
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Cursor and GitHub Copilot go head-to-head in a pair of firsthand reviews. One coder returns to Copilot after it adds support for top LLMs. A coding writer falls for Cursor’s conversational style and beginner-friendly flow.
05/05/2025
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The Data Science Lab
Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression with two-way interactions between predictor variables. Compared to standard linear regression, which predicts a single numeric value based only on a linear combination of predictor values, linear regression with interactions can handle more complex data while retaining a high level of model interpretability.
05/02/2025
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In-Depth
Why outline when you can prompt? Vibe writing is the new vibe coding, and yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like.
05/01/2025
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Q&A
SQL development is evolving fast, and Microsoft's Drew Skwiers-Koballa will explain it all in a featured session at the VS Live! @ Microsoft HQ developer conference being held at the company's Redmond campus in August.
04/29/2025
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A new GitHub repo serves as a lab for working with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Microsoft Copilot Studio.
04/28/2025
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Andrej Karpathy, who started the whole "vibe coding" thing to describe AI-drive software development, is now warning developers to keep tight control of their "new over-eager junior intern savant with encyclopedic knowledge of software, but who also bull* you all the time, has an over-abundance of courage and shows little to no taste for good code."
04/25/2025
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Microsoft announced the availability of .NET Aspire 9.2 and the second preview of the .NET AI Chat Web App template, highlighting new capabilities that bring cloud-native orchestration and AI integration closer together in the .NET ecosystem.
04/24/2025
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In-Depth
Microsoft reintroduced the AI Dev Gallery, a Windows application that serves as a comprehensive playground for AI development using .NET. It simplifies AI development with .NET through interactive samples, easy model downloads, and exportable source code.
04/23/2025
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Preview 3 features next edit suggestions -- or tab, tab, tab coding -- following previous previews of GPT-4o code completions and assorted Copilot enhancements.
04/22/2025
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Q&A
Master the latest features of modern JavaScript in a hands-on workshop covering clean code techniques, async programming, templating, and full-stack development with Node.js.
04/22/2025
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The Data Science Lab
Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of Nadaraya-Watson kernel regression using the C# language. NW kernel regression is simple to implement and is especially effective for small datasets.
04/18/2025
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In-Depth
Helping developers sort out which AI does what amid the growing clutter.
04/17/2025
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On the way to autonomous AI, Microsoft announced an early access research preview of "computer use" for Copilot Studio wherein AI agents visually interact with any app or website -- clicking, typing, and navigating like a human.
04/16/2025