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When a VS Code extension I relied on stopped working 🧩, I rebuilt the workflow using snippets and keybindings ⌨️. Same result, different paths, and some surprising AI advice along the way 🤖.
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AI Faceoff: Customized VS Code Commands -- Visual Studio Magazine
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 varie...
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January 10, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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Latest rankings show C# with the biggest year-over-year gain 📈
The same report flags TypeScript as a language to watch 👀
A look at what TIOBE, RedMonk, and PYPL say now about the scene.
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C# Grabs Language of the Year, TIOBE Predicts TypeScript Rise -- Visual Studio Magazine
C# was named TIOBE’s Programming Language of the Year, while the index also pointed to a potential rise for TypeScript. Here’s how the latest rankings compare across TIOBE, RedMonk, and PYPL.
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January 8, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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Devs didn't unplug over the holidays 📺
19 VS Live! Orlando sessions hit YouTube and pulled nearly 30,000 views, mostly on advanced topics like Copilot debugging.
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Microsoft: Devs Are Choosing Immersive Learning as AI and Modern .NET Accelerate -- Visual Studio Magazine
Strong holiday viewership of advanced VS Live! Orlando sessions points to growing demand for immersive, hands-on training as AI-assisted development and modern .NET architectures reshape how developer...
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January 7, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Indexing can make or break SQL Server performance. 🗄️
Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) digs into column order, filtered indexes & tuning mistakes at VSLive! Las Vegas on March 17. ⚙️
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Mastering SQL Server Indexing: What Every .NET Developer Needs to Know -- Visual Studio Magazine
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. He...
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January 7, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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This can be a strong option for numeric prediction problems 📈
Here's an end-to-end KRR implementation in JS, including RBF kernels and Cholesky-based matrix inverse training 🧮
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Kernel Ridge Regression with Cholesky Inverse Training Using JavaScript -- Visual Studio Magazine
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 usi...
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January 6, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Upgrading server-side code from .NET 8 to .NET 10? 🚀
Reddit devs say it takes minutes ⏱️, brings free performance gains ⚡, and rarely breaks things — even for large backends
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Devs Discuss Updating Backend Code from .NET 8 to .NET 10: 'Like a Breeze' -- Visual Studio Magazine
Reddit developers discussing upgrades from .NET 8 to .NET 10 report few breaking changes, minimal effort, and consistent performance and LTS benefits, even across large, multi-project codebases.
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January 5, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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C++ devs in Visual Studio 🧰 are getting a more serious Copilot workflow 🤖: Microsoft is previewing C++ code editing tools that expose project-wide symbol info, references, and more in VS2026 Insiders.
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C++ Joins C# in Visual Studio's Deep Copilot Tier -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft has moved C++ into Visual Studio's deepest Copilot tier, adding symbol-aware tools in public preview that let Copilot agent mode refactor and edit large C++ codebases across multiple files, ...
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December 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Microsoft again named a Leader in Gartner’s AI Application Development Platforms Magic Quadrant report🤖 Azure AI Foundry ☁️cited for vision, agents and enterprise governance.
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Microsoft Again Named a Leader in AI AppDev Platforms Research -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft was again named a Leader in Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms, highlighting Azure AI Foundry’s enterprise focus.
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December 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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IntelliCode is out ❌
VS Code now points developers to GitHub Copilot 🤖
Local, offline AI gives way to cloud-based, metered assistance ☁️
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Microsoft Quietly Kills IntelliCode as AI Strategy Shifts to Subscription Copilot -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft has begun decommissioning IntelliCode in VS Code, ending free local AI-assisted completions and shifting its developer AI strategy fully to subscription-based GitHub Copilot.
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December 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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IntelliCode is out ❌
VS Code now points developers to GitHub Copilot 🤖
Local, offline AI gives way to cloud-based, metered assistance ☁️
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Microsoft Quietly Kills IntelliCode as AI Strategy Shifts to Subscription Copilot -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft has begun decommissioning IntelliCode in VS Code, ending free local AI-assisted completions and shifting its developer AI strategy fully to subscription-based GitHub Copilot.
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December 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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New in Data Science Lab: Linear regression in C# 🧮: a full pseudo-inverse demo—no tuning params, no SGD ⚙️. Covers weights, bias, MSE, and QR-based Moore-Penrose math 📊
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Linear Regression with Pseudo-Inverse Training Using C# -- Visual Studio Magazine
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-...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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A Q&A with Ted Neward about Orleans 📦 for .NET devs 💻 in advance of his talk at Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 🎤🎰 on March 18, 2026, focusing on actor-based state 🧠, concurrency ⚙️, and scaling 📈.
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Busy .NET Developer's Guide to Orleans -- Visual Studio Magazine
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, ...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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December 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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🧩 GitHub says Spark is now covered by its DPA 📄 plus a dedicated billing SKU 💳 for tighter premium-request budgets, and agent tweaks to better preserve manual edits ✍️
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GitHub Updates Spark, Its AI Prompt-Based App Builder -- Visual Studio Magazine
GitHub Spark, an AI app-generation tool separate from Copilot still in public preview, gains enterprise, billing, and UI upgrades in its latest update.
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December 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Multi-agent orchestration for GitHub Copilot🧠 & custom agents🤖, new Language Models editor💻, stronger URL/domain approval and a TypeScript 7 preview.
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VS Code 1.107 (November 2025 Update) Expands Multi-Agent Orchestration, Model Management -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft's November 2025 Visual Studio Code update (version 1.107) advances multi-agent orchestration for GitHub Copilot and custom agents, adds a centralized Language Models editor and new safety co...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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High-volume search workloads 🔍Linux ARM64 builds + updated x64/ARM64 engines for Windows & macOS, enhanced JSON/CSV support, & SDKs for C++, Java & .NET across platforms 🚀
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dtSearch Adds Linux ARM64 Build and Boosts JSON/CSV Support in 2025.02 Release -- Visual Studio Magazine
dtSearch version 2025.02 extends its search engine line with new Linux ARM64 support, updated x64/ARM64 builds for Windows and macOS, and enhanced JSON/CSV handling for high-volume enterprise and deve...
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December 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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VS Code Insiders preview tool uses Copilot Chat 🤖 to plan npm upgrades, update packages & suggest fixes as you approve each step. Handy for dependency cleanup without the usual grind 🧰⚡
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Microsoft Tests Copilot-Powered Tool to Modernize JavaScript/TypeScript in VS Code -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft previews a GitHub Copilot-powered VS Code Insiders tool that modernizes JavaScript/TypeScript apps by upgrading npm dependencies and fixing breaking changes.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Are non-promotable tasks stalling your technical growth? Senior Engineer Fatima Taj shares the exact strategy she used to rebalance her workload, spot the red flags, and talk to management.
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Avoiding the 'Being Glue' Trap: Recognizing and Rebalancing Non-Promotable Work -- Visual Studio Magazine
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 w...
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December 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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On-prem teams get Azure DevOps Server GA ✅🛠️ Git-first repos, smoother pipelines 🚀, stronger Test Plans 🧪, and a new continuous-update lifecycle 🔄 for self-hosted DevOps.
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On-Premises Azure DevOps Server Reaches GA -- Visual Studio Magazine
Azure DevOps Server is now generally available as Microsoft’s production-ready, self-hosted DevOps platform, with ongoing updates and Git-first enhancements.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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🚀 Public Copilot Spaces you can share by link 🧑‍💻 new VS Copilot cloud agent preview 🔧 & GPT-5.1-Codex-Max in the model picker 🧠 across Copilot Chat surfaces.
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GitHub Ships Early December Copilot Updates Across Spaces, Visual Studio and Model Options -- Visual Studio Magazine
GitHub changelog posts detail new Copilot Spaces sharing features, a Visual Studio Copilot update, and public preview access to OpenAI's GPT-5.1-Codex-Max model.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Azure's AI stack keeps widening 🤖 -- more building blocks for app makers 🧠 and more places to run those apps with control 🌐.
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Azure Broadens AI Options from Models to Hybrid Deployment -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft is expanding Azure's AI stack with more model choices in Microsoft Foundry and more flexible hybrid and sovereign deployment paths, reinforcing a build-on-Azure-AI, deploy-where-needed appro...
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December 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Aspire 13 now makes Python first-class 🐍 Native AppHost orchestration, auto venv + uv/pip deps, discovery, and Dockerfile publishing for Python services.
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Aspire 13 Makes Python a First-Class Workload with .NET and JavaScript -- Visual Studio Magazine
Aspire 13 adds official, first-class Python support so distributed apps can orchestrate Python services natively alongside other Aspire resources.
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December 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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VS Code extension abuse keeps rolling on 😬 A fake Prettier add-on in the Marketplace kicked off a stealthy chain🧩 (VBS -- PowerShell -- loader -- RAT) 🛠️
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Threat Actors Keep Weaponizing VS Code Extensions -- Visual Studio Magazine
Threat actors are still abusing Visual Studio Code extensions as an entry point, with the latest fake Prettier incident showing a multi-stage path from marketplace install to credential theft and full...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Data keeps exploding 📈 and tools keep multiplying 🧰, but insight still lags. Greg Shulz laid out an end-to-end fix: cleaner pipelines, AI with guardrails 🤖& more.
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An Expert's Take on Advanced Data Visualization and Analytics -- Visual Studio Magazine
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 presentatio...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM