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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
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By Visual Studio Magazine Editors
Welcome to the Multi-AI Era: Multimodal models & AI agents are reshaping dev work. Microsoft says it's the "age of AI agents" -- are you ready?
05/21/2025
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As our new age of agentic AI takes shape, Google is stepping up its game with the introduction of the Jules agent and enhanced Gemini AI, which could be seen as a direct response to the growing competition from Microsoft and GitHub, who have been making significant strides in the space.
05/20/2025
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Microsoft ushers in a new era at Build 2025, unveiling a wave of AI-powered agents designed to transform software development, supercharge productivity, and redefine the future of coding.
05/19/2025
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OpenAI's "Codex" AI model is back, in a new form from the 2021 offering that powered the original GitHub Copilot and kickstarted the GenAI craze.
05/16/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of computing a matrix inverse using the Newton iteration algorithm. Compared to other algorithms, Newton iteration is simple and easy to customize, but the technique is relatively slow.
05/15/2025
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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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While Preview 3 comes with a wide array of incremental improvements across performance, libraries, CLI tooling, ASP.NET Core/Blazor and more, it doesn't introduce any major new features.
04/15/2025
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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) for agentic AI has gained much traction since being introduced by Anthropic last November, and now it has a C# SDK.
04/14/2025