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New in our 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 6:00 PM
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December 15, 2025 at 4:36 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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December 11, 2025 at 4:59 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 6:16 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
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🎧 VS Code Insiders now has an official podcast with quick, behind-the-scenes chats on in-progress features, accessibility, and AI agents 🤖. Nice extra context if you follow the Insiders builds 🚀.
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Listen Up: VS Code Insiders Gets a Podcast -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft has launched the VS Code Insiders Podcast, a new behind-the-scenes audio show that digs into experimental features, the people building them and what may be coming next to Visual Studio Code...
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December 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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🙂 You can pick it in the model selector (agent/ask/edit) if you're on Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, or Enterprise. Admins need to opt in for managed plans 🚀
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Claude Opus 4.5 Lands in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio and VS Code -- Visual Studio Magazine
GitHub Copilot users can now select Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 model in chat across Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio (plus several other IDEs) during a new public preview.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Our 2025 rewind is here!

This recap highlights the top 10 most-viewed articles of the year, including major shifts across the Microsoft ecosystem, developer tooling, and enterprise IT.

Thank you to everyone who read, shared, and engaged with our coverage.

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December 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Human factors 🧠 > pipelines 🔧. VS Live! Las Vegas lab 🧪 tackles trust 🤝, burnout signals 🔥, and flow metrics 📊. Mar 16 📅 with Benjamin Day 👨‍💻 + Angela Dugan 👩‍💼.
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Mastering the Human Factors of Software Engineering -- Visual Studio Magazine
Explore the real reasons software projects struggle -- and how to fix -- them in a hands-on lab presented by Benjamin Day and Angela Dugan, who will reveal practical strategies for improving communica...
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December 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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VS 2026 Copilot Chat: better code search 🔍, C# deps smarts 🧩, line refs 🎯.
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Post-GA Copilot Response Improvements in Visual Studio 2026 -- Visual Studio Magazine
Since its Nov. 11 debut, Visual Studio 2026 sees improved Copilot Chat response quality by enhancing semantic code search with remote indexes, expanding awareness of external C# symbols, and increasin...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Notable improvements: GitHub Cloud Agent preview 🤖 for delegated tasks, right-click Copilot Actions 🖱️& All-In-One Search "Did You Mean" intent help 🔍. Less hopping around, more in-IDE AI ✨.
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Visual Studio 2026 Gets New AI Features in November Update -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft has been busy adding new features to Visual Studio 2026, which reached general availability on Nov. 11, including several new features driven by AI to enhance developer workflow.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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K-means can double as a clean anomaly detector 🧠: cluster your data 📊, then flag the points farthest from each centroid 🎯. This walkthrough shows an end-to-end JavaScript/Node demo 💻 and how to adapt it for real numeric (or encoded categorical) datasets 🔍.
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Anomaly Detection Using K-Means Clustering with JavaScript -- Visual Studio Magazine
Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of anomaly detection using k-means data clustering, implemented with JavaScript. Compared to other anomaly detection techniques, k-mean...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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🚀 Microsoft says the new Go-based TypeScript toolchain is ready for everyday use in editors + CLI. tsgo nightly builds hit ~7x–10x faster full builds, and TS 6.0 is now the last JS-based release. More gaps to close before native TS 7.0 ships.
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Microsoft Gets 'Real' on Native TypeScript Remake -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft says its Go-based 'native' TypeScript 7 compiler and language service are now stable enough for everyday editor and CLI use, delivering big speed gains and near-complete type-checking parity...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM