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Exciting news! The public roadmap for evolving Visual Studio with AI-powered agentic experiences is here.
Each month brings smarter, faster, and more intuitive tools to enhance the coding experience.
Here’s a look at what’s coming next!
Each month brings smarter, faster, and more intuitive tools to enhance the coding experience.
Here’s a look at what’s coming next!
August 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Exciting news! The public roadmap for evolving Visual Studio with AI-powered agentic experiences is here.
Each month brings smarter, faster, and more intuitive tools to enhance the coding experience.
Here’s a look at what’s coming next!
Each month brings smarter, faster, and more intuitive tools to enhance the coding experience.
Here’s a look at what’s coming next!
Entity Framework Core is powering many of today’s applications with powerful, feature-rich ORM capabilities.
Developers benefit from strongly-typed LINQ queries that translate into efficient SQL queries.
But complexities arise as schemas grow larger and so do queries.
#EntityFramework #ORM
Developers benefit from strongly-typed LINQ queries that translate into efficient SQL queries.
But complexities arise as schemas grow larger and so do queries.
#EntityFramework #ORM
August 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Entity Framework Core is powering many of today’s applications with powerful, feature-rich ORM capabilities.
Developers benefit from strongly-typed LINQ queries that translate into efficient SQL queries.
But complexities arise as schemas grow larger and so do queries.
#EntityFramework #ORM
Developers benefit from strongly-typed LINQ queries that translate into efficient SQL queries.
But complexities arise as schemas grow larger and so do queries.
#EntityFramework #ORM
The August 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) is out now! This release is packed with features to help developers stay focused, productive, and in control.
Whether building games, tuning performance, or exploring AI, meaningful improvements make everyday development smoother.
Whether building games, tuning performance, or exploring AI, meaningful improvements make everyday development smoother.
August 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The August 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) is out now! This release is packed with features to help developers stay focused, productive, and in control.
Whether building games, tuning performance, or exploring AI, meaningful improvements make everyday development smoother.
Whether building games, tuning performance, or exploring AI, meaningful improvements make everyday development smoother.
The GitHub Copilot for Azure extension is now in Public Preview for Visual Studio 2022 (17.14+).
Bringing Azure developer tools directly into GitHub Copilot Agent Mode.
Query resources, diagnose issues, deploy, and run CLI commands—all from the Copilot Chat.
#AzureDevTools
Bringing Azure developer tools directly into GitHub Copilot Agent Mode.
Query resources, diagnose issues, deploy, and run CLI commands—all from the Copilot Chat.
#AzureDevTools
August 26, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The GitHub Copilot for Azure extension is now in Public Preview for Visual Studio 2022 (17.14+).
Bringing Azure developer tools directly into GitHub Copilot Agent Mode.
Query resources, diagnose issues, deploy, and run CLI commands—all from the Copilot Chat.
#AzureDevTools
Bringing Azure developer tools directly into GitHub Copilot Agent Mode.
Query resources, diagnose issues, deploy, and run CLI commands—all from the Copilot Chat.
#AzureDevTools
Building a powerful AI assistant for business tasks requires measurable performance metrics—this begins with defining what a "correct" answer looks like.
Enter the concept of ground truth.
Enter the concept of ground truth.
August 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Building a powerful AI assistant for business tasks requires measurable performance metrics—this begins with defining what a "correct" answer looks like.
Enter the concept of ground truth.
Enter the concept of ground truth.
Exciting news for developers! MCP support is now GA in Visual Studio, unlocking richer, real-time context across development stacks.
Agent Mode is more powerful than ever! #VisualStudio #MCP
Agent Mode is more powerful than ever! #VisualStudio #MCP
August 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Exciting news for developers! MCP support is now GA in Visual Studio, unlocking richer, real-time context across development stacks.
Agent Mode is more powerful than ever! #VisualStudio #MCP
Agent Mode is more powerful than ever! #VisualStudio #MCP
Proxy 4 is here! After years of innovation and sustained use in the Windows OS codebase, Proxy has matured into a production-grade, modern C++ library for runtime polymorphism.
The theory behind Proxy is original,
The theory behind Proxy is original,
August 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Proxy 4 is here! After years of innovation and sustained use in the Windows OS codebase, Proxy has matured into a production-grade, modern C++ library for runtime polymorphism.
The theory behind Proxy is original,
The theory behind Proxy is original,
GitHub’s Dependabot now automates dependency updates for C++ projects using vcpkg! This is an exciting development, allowing teams to easily keep library dependencies current and secure with minimal effort.
#Cplusplus #GitHub
#Cplusplus #GitHub
August 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
GitHub’s Dependabot now automates dependency updates for C++ projects using vcpkg! This is an exciting development, allowing teams to easily keep library dependencies current and secure with minimal effort.
#Cplusplus #GitHub
#Cplusplus #GitHub
Have a generative AI application and questioning the quality of its results? Consider leveraging Azure AI Foundry for evaluation.
This platform offers a suite of tools and built-in metrics to assess your application's performance effectively.
This platform offers a suite of tools and built-in metrics to assess your application's performance effectively.
August 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Have a generative AI application and questioning the quality of its results? Consider leveraging Azure AI Foundry for evaluation.
This platform offers a suite of tools and built-in metrics to assess your application's performance effectively.
This platform offers a suite of tools and built-in metrics to assess your application's performance effectively.
Exciting news for developers: the official NuGet MCP Server has arrived! This integration allows real-time NuGet package information and management tools to enhance your AI-powered development workflow.
#NuGetMCPServer
#NuGetMCPServer
August 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Exciting news for developers: the official NuGet MCP Server has arrived! This integration allows real-time NuGet package information and management tools to enhance your AI-powered development workflow.
#NuGetMCPServer
#NuGetMCPServer
There’s something special about hosting developers at Microsoft HQ.
This year’s Visual Studio Live! Redmond was electric, with every room buzzing.
From session one, developers engaged actively, asking smart questions and connecting with Visual Studio, Azure, and GitHub Copilot teams.
This year’s Visual Studio Live! Redmond was electric, with every room buzzing.
From session one, developers engaged actively, asking smart questions and connecting with Visual Studio, Azure, and GitHub Copilot teams.
August 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
There’s something special about hosting developers at Microsoft HQ.
This year’s Visual Studio Live! Redmond was electric, with every room buzzing.
From session one, developers engaged actively, asking smart questions and connecting with Visual Studio, Azure, and GitHub Copilot teams.
This year’s Visual Studio Live! Redmond was electric, with every room buzzing.
From session one, developers engaged actively, asking smart questions and connecting with Visual Studio, Azure, and GitHub Copilot teams.
Smarter Code Search in Visual Studio has just taken a huge leap forward! The new Remote Semantic Search integration helps find what you need faster and with greater precision.
Get ready for a new way to explore your code!
Get ready for a new way to explore your code!
August 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Smarter Code Search in Visual Studio has just taken a huge leap forward! The new Remote Semantic Search integration helps find what you need faster and with greater precision.
Get ready for a new way to explore your code!
Get ready for a new way to explore your code!
Exciting news in the .NET universe! The seventh preview release of .NET 10 is here, packed with enhancements across the Runtime, SDK, libraries, and more.
Dive into the full release notes below and start exploring today.
#dotnet #devcommunity
Dive into the full release notes below and start exploring today.
#dotnet #devcommunity
August 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Exciting news in the .NET universe! The seventh preview release of .NET 10 is here, packed with enhancements across the Runtime, SDK, libraries, and more.
Dive into the full release notes below and start exploring today.
#dotnet #devcommunity
Dive into the full release notes below and start exploring today.
#dotnet #devcommunity
For business leaders building with AI, the conversation has moved beyond chat.
The bar is higher: can AI generate, reason, and deliver measurable outcomes—safely and at scale? Today, announcing the general availability of OpenAI’s new flagship model, GPT-5,
The bar is higher: can AI generate, reason, and deliver measurable outcomes—safely and at scale? Today, announcing the general availability of OpenAI’s new flagship model, GPT-5,
August 9, 2025 at 7:31 AM
For business leaders building with AI, the conversation has moved beyond chat.
The bar is higher: can AI generate, reason, and deliver measurable outcomes—safely and at scale? Today, announcing the general availability of OpenAI’s new flagship model, GPT-5,
The bar is higher: can AI generate, reason, and deliver measurable outcomes—safely and at scale? Today, announcing the general availability of OpenAI’s new flagship model, GPT-5,
The recent engagement by the ISE team at Microsoft with a large industrial customer aimed at making a previously developed distributed system production-ready.
This system utilized technologies like Python, Azure IoT, Kubernetes, Redis, and Dapr to handle a greater scale of messages.
This system utilized technologies like Python, Azure IoT, Kubernetes, Redis, and Dapr to handle a greater scale of messages.
August 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The recent engagement by the ISE team at Microsoft with a large industrial customer aimed at making a previously developed distributed system production-ready.
This system utilized technologies like Python, Azure IoT, Kubernetes, Redis, and Dapr to handle a greater scale of messages.
This system utilized technologies like Python, Azure IoT, Kubernetes, Redis, and Dapr to handle a greater scale of messages.
When building AI applications, comprehensive evaluation is crucial to ensure accurate and reliable responses.
Microsoft is enhancing its AI evaluation libraries, introducing new evaluators for agent quality assessment and NLP metrics.
#AI #Evaluation
Microsoft is enhancing its AI evaluation libraries, introducing new evaluators for agent quality assessment and NLP metrics.
#AI #Evaluation
August 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
When building AI applications, comprehensive evaluation is crucial to ensure accurate and reliable responses.
Microsoft is enhancing its AI evaluation libraries, introducing new evaluators for agent quality assessment and NLP metrics.
#AI #Evaluation
Microsoft is enhancing its AI evaluation libraries, introducing new evaluators for agent quality assessment and NLP metrics.
#AI #Evaluation
Navigating the complexities of C++ code can often disrupt the workflow, especially when updating existing code.
Updating data member access levels typically involves multiple steps: adjusting class sections, adding getter/setter methods, and updating all references.
#CPlusPlus
Updating data member access levels typically involves multiple steps: adjusting class sections, adding getter/setter methods, and updating all references.
#CPlusPlus
August 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Navigating the complexities of C++ code can often disrupt the workflow, especially when updating existing code.
Updating data member access levels typically involves multiple steps: adjusting class sections, adding getter/setter methods, and updating all references.
#CPlusPlus
Updating data member access levels typically involves multiple steps: adjusting class sections, adding getter/setter methods, and updating all references.
#CPlusPlus
Join Robert Green and Leslie Richardson for a full day of live sessions, demos, and interviews at Microsoft HQ! Tune in on August 5 for a special edition of Visual Studio Toolbox Live—broadcast straight from VS LIVE! Redmond.
#VisualStudioToolbox
#VisualStudioToolbox
July 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Join Robert Green and Leslie Richardson for a full day of live sessions, demos, and interviews at Microsoft HQ! Tune in on August 5 for a special edition of Visual Studio Toolbox Live—broadcast straight from VS LIVE! Redmond.
#VisualStudioToolbox
#VisualStudioToolbox
Today, we're thrilled to announce the sixth preview release of .NET 10, featuring enhancements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more.
Dive into the full release notes linked below! #DotNet10
Dive into the full release notes linked below! #DotNet10
July 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Today, we're thrilled to announce the sixth preview release of .NET 10, featuring enhancements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more.
Dive into the full release notes linked below! #DotNet10
Dive into the full release notes linked below! #DotNet10
As a .NET developer, productivity is key to your workflow.
GitHub Copilot Chat offers two modes—Ask Mode and Agent Mode—each with unique strengths.
Let’s dive in! #DotNetDev
GitHub Copilot Chat offers two modes—Ask Mode and Agent Mode—each with unique strengths.
Let’s dive in! #DotNetDev
July 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
As a .NET developer, productivity is key to your workflow.
GitHub Copilot Chat offers two modes—Ask Mode and Agent Mode—each with unique strengths.
Let’s dive in! #DotNetDev
GitHub Copilot Chat offers two modes—Ask Mode and Agent Mode—each with unique strengths.
Let’s dive in! #DotNetDev
🚀 Exciting news! The latest 1.21 release of the CMake Tools extension for Visual Studio Code is here! 🎉 This update addresses multi-root improvements and adds CMake presets version 10 support.
Check our CHANGELOG for all updates!
Check our CHANGELOG for all updates!
July 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
🚀 Exciting news! The latest 1.21 release of the CMake Tools extension for Visual Studio Code is here! 🎉 This update addresses multi-root improvements and adds CMake presets version 10 support.
Check our CHANGELOG for all updates!
Check our CHANGELOG for all updates!
In a recent engagement, our team of Data Scientists and Software Engineers developed custom AI models tailored to our customer’s specific needs.
Balancing a rapid experimentation mindset with engineering fundamentals like CI/CD, PR reviews,
Balancing a rapid experimentation mindset with engineering fundamentals like CI/CD, PR reviews,
July 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
In a recent engagement, our team of Data Scientists and Software Engineers developed custom AI models tailored to our customer’s specific needs.
Balancing a rapid experimentation mindset with engineering fundamentals like CI/CD, PR reviews,
Balancing a rapid experimentation mindset with engineering fundamentals like CI/CD, PR reviews,
🚀 Big news! Microsoft has achieved ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification for its Azure AI Foundry Models and Microsoft Security Copilot! This globally recognized standard reinforces our commitment to responsible and transparent AI management.
#AIInnovation
#AIInnovation
July 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🚀 Big news! Microsoft has achieved ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification for its Azure AI Foundry Models and Microsoft Security Copilot! This globally recognized standard reinforces our commitment to responsible and transparent AI management.
#AIInnovation
#AIInnovation
Exciting news in the .NET world! Today we're thrilled to announce the sixth preview release of .NET 10, packed with enhancements across the board.
From Runtime to ASP.NET Core, there's a lot to explore! Check out the full release notes linked below and get started today.
#dotnet #developers
From Runtime to ASP.NET Core, there's a lot to explore! Check out the full release notes linked below and get started today.
#dotnet #developers
July 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Exciting news in the .NET world! Today we're thrilled to announce the sixth preview release of .NET 10, packed with enhancements across the board.
From Runtime to ASP.NET Core, there's a lot to explore! Check out the full release notes linked below and get started today.
#dotnet #developers
From Runtime to ASP.NET Core, there's a lot to explore! Check out the full release notes linked below and get started today.
#dotnet #developers