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In-Depth
A hands-on Blazor test shows how VS Code 1.119 makes agent browser sharing more visible, permissioned and chat-driven.
05/11/2026
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News
The new weekly update focuses on agent workflows, observability, trust controls, Markdown usability and engineering changes.
05/07/2026
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Q&A
Rockford Lhotka previews his Visual Studio Live! San Diego session, "MCP Magic," and explains why the Model Context Protocol is becoming a key building block for AI agents. In this Q&A, he discusses how C# developers can build MCP servers, connect them to agents, and design tool layers that are useful, scalable, and production-ready.
05/07/2026
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Microsoft's Mads Kristensen said subagents are "coming soon" to Copilot in Visual Studio, while VS Code already documents subagent support across context isolation, custom agents, parallel execution and search.
05/06/2026
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Q&A
Microsoft Product Manager Mike Kistler previews his Visual Studio Live! session on how MCP servers give .NET developers a universal standard for connecting AI models to external data and tools -- and how to build them with the C# SDK. Microsoft's Leslie Richardson is a co-presenter.
05/05/2026
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In-Depth
Reflecting a broader trend of Microsoft embracing Claude AI, recent VS Code updates show the company accommodating Claude Code beyond model selection, with support for Claude-specific instruction files, rules, agents, skills, hooks and plugin conventions.
05/04/2026
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News
Microsoft's WinUI 3 Gallery 2.9 gives developers a working reference app for trying Windows App SDK 2.0 controls, APIs and improvements without starting a new project.
05/01/2026
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The Data Science Lab
Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of quadratic regression, implemented from scratch, with pseudo-inverse training, using the C# language. Compared to standard linear regression, quadratic regression is better able to handle data with a non-linear structure and interactions between predictor variables. Compared to other types of training, pseudo-inverse does not require any parameters that must be determined by trial and error.
05/01/2026
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News
Just two days after GitHub announced usage-based billing for Copilot, Microsoft shipped VS Code 1.118 -- under its new weekly release cadence -- with significant token efficiency improvements designed to keep costs down when the meter starts running June 1.
04/30/2026
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News
Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions infrastructure while the developer moves on, is a meaningfully different way to use AI assistance.
04/29/2026
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News
The April update suppresses Copilot completions while IntelliSense is active, addressing a long-running editor conflict.
04/28/2026
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News
GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, prompting user concerns about predictability, model access, monthly credit limits and whether unchanged plan prices will translate into less included usage.
04/27/2026
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News
VS Code 1.117 adds bring-your-own model key support for Copilot Business and Enterprise users and introduces a set of chat, agent, terminal, and TypeScript updates.
04/23/2026
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Q&A
Microsoft's Data API Builder is designed to help developers expose database objects through REST and GraphQL without building a full data access layer from scratch. In this Q&A, Steve Jones previews his upcoming Visual Studio Live! San Diego 2026 session on how teams can use the tool with SQL Server and PostgreSQL to accelerate app development.
04/23/2026
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News
Microsoft's new move to ship Azure MCP tools inside Visual Studio 2022 adds to a small but notable pattern of selected Visual Studio 2026-era functionality later showing up in the older IDE, led by a cluster of MCP management features and, outside the MCP category, the Copilot Profiler Agent.
04/22/2026
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News
Microsoft says the beta is production-ready for many day-to-day workflows and CI pipelines.
04/21/2026
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News
Remember when you had to really dig in concentrate and understand exactly how C# and other code worked at the most basic levels? Then you'll like Microsoft's early preview of .NET 11.
04/20/2026
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News
At VSLive! Las Vegas, Mads Kristensen revealed Visual Studio 2027 as part of a broader shift toward AI-assisted development and a more continuous release cadence for Microsoft's flagship IDE.
04/17/2026
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In-Depth
Now shipping in the VS Code Insiders build, Microsoft's new Visual Studio Code Agents preview offers an early look at a separate companion app for agent sessions, approvals, workspace discovery, and supervised review loops.
04/16/2026
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Q&A
Amber Vanderburg discusses how engineering leaders can spot and fix the “silent bugs” in team dynamics before they turn into bigger delivery problems.
04/16/2026
