Microsoft is bringing its Azure-aware Copilot experience to Visual Studio 2022. The preview extension lets developers use ...

Microsoft’s Bradley Ball dives into the inner workings of SQL Server indexing to help developers and DBAs speak the same language, avoid common pitfalls, and boost performance with smarter, more ...

Q&A Choosing the Right UI Framework for Native Windows Applications By David Ramel 02/13/2024 What tech should a .NET coder use for a new Windows desktop app when presented with a dizzying array of ...

News Visual Studio Copilot Improves Feature Search, Shortcuts, Slash Commands By David Ramel 01/27/2025 Microsoft's Visual Studio dev team has been working on the next release of its flagship IDE, ...

Q&A Introduction to .NET Aspire By David Ramel 02/19/2025 .NET Aspire is a cloud-native application stack designed to simplify the development of distributed systems in .NET. Introduced at Microsoft's ...

The tool provides automated code fixes, predefined migration tasks, and recommendations for Azure services, accelerating enterprise cloud modernization.

By integrating GitHub Copilot directly into Visual Studio's diagnostic workflow, the new Copilot Diagnostics toolset promises ...

Azure Agentic DevOps Microsoft is bringing agentic workflows and Azure-native capabilities directly into Visual Studio. A ...

Serving tens of millions of developers, Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code shipped a new release with three major new features, including a 'full' language server mode for Pylance, ...

GitHub’s open-source Spec Kit formalizes spec-driven development for AI coding agents by providing a CLI, templates, and prompts that move work through specification, plan, tasks, and implementation, ...

In-Depth All the Copilots: Microsoft Explains 'The Ecosystem Is Larger than You Think' Unfortunately, the exact number of AI Copilots unleashed on the world by Microsoft is apparently unknowable, like ...

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