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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
Microsoft is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms, marking a second consecutive year of excellence.
This achievement highlights continuous product innovation, a seamless developer experience, and AI leadership.
This achievement highlights continuous product innovation, a seamless developer experience, and AI leadership.
August 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Microsoft is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms, marking a second consecutive year of excellence.
This achievement highlights continuous product innovation, a seamless developer experience, and AI leadership.
This achievement highlights continuous product innovation, a seamless developer experience, and AI leadership.
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! You can now bring your own language model into Visual Studio Chat.
👩💻👨💻 #DevCommunity
👩💻👨💻 #DevCommunity
August 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Exciting news for developers! You can now bring your own language model into Visual Studio Chat.
👩💻👨💻 #DevCommunity
👩💻👨💻 #DevCommunity
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!
Proud to share that Microsoft is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management, marking the third consecutive year.
This acknowledgment highlights the innovation and real-world impact of Microsoft's container portfolio.
This acknowledgment highlights the innovation and real-world impact of Microsoft's container portfolio.
August 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Proud to share that Microsoft is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management, marking the third consecutive year.
This acknowledgment highlights the innovation and real-world impact of Microsoft's container portfolio.
This acknowledgment highlights the innovation and real-world impact of Microsoft's container portfolio.
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.
Artificial intelligence is swiftly integrating into the toolkit of the modern .NET developer.
One tool rising to the occasion is GitHub Copilot Chat, which holds the potential to save time, eliminate friction,
One tool rising to the occasion is GitHub Copilot Chat, which holds the potential to save time, eliminate friction,
August 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Artificial intelligence is swiftly integrating into the toolkit of the modern .NET developer.
One tool rising to the occasion is GitHub Copilot Chat, which holds the potential to save time, eliminate friction,
One tool rising to the occasion is GitHub Copilot Chat, which holds the potential to save time, eliminate friction,
Exciting updates are here! The recent vcpkg package manager release (2025.07.25) introduces several noteworthy changes, enhancing functionality and performance.
Let’s dive into the highlights.
Let’s dive into the highlights.
August 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Exciting updates are here! The recent vcpkg package manager release (2025.07.25) introduces several noteworthy changes, enhancing functionality and performance.
Let’s dive into the highlights.
Let’s dive into the highlights.
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
Welcome to the August 2025 .NET servicing updates.
Here’s what’s new in the latest release of .NET & .NET Framework.
Let’s dive in.
Here’s what’s new in the latest release of .NET & .NET Framework.
Let’s dive in.
August 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Welcome to the August 2025 .NET servicing updates.
Here’s what’s new in the latest release of .NET & .NET Framework.
Let’s dive in.
Here’s what’s new in the latest release of .NET & .NET Framework.
Let’s dive in.
Support for Visual Studio 2015 will end on October 14, 2025.
For those using older versions, upgrading to Visual Studio 2022 is crucial to maintain productivity and security.
It introduces the power of Copilot and significant productivity enhancements.
For those using older versions, upgrading to Visual Studio 2022 is crucial to maintain productivity and security.
It introduces the power of Copilot and significant productivity enhancements.
August 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Support for Visual Studio 2015 will end on October 14, 2025.
For those using older versions, upgrading to Visual Studio 2022 is crucial to maintain productivity and security.
It introduces the power of Copilot and significant productivity enhancements.
For those using older versions, upgrading to Visual Studio 2022 is crucial to maintain productivity and security.
It introduces the power of Copilot and significant productivity enhancements.
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