Microsoft's second release candidate adds cryptography APIs, mobile and desktop development improvements, and package management controls ahead of next month's final release.

Ahead of his Visual Studio Live! session, Marcel de Vries explains how .NET teams can expose useful application capabilities to AI agents, starting with focused, read-only tools and user-specific ...

Microsoft's latest update expands agent management, adds cross-platform sandboxing and lets developers pick up AI conversations started in other apps.

Researchers analyzing GitHub Copilot telemetry found that about 87 percent of LLM calls were agent-initiated after a developer began a turn. LLM calls and tool invocations occurred at nearly a 1:1 ...

In an earlier post, I discussed the three objects that Microsoft has provided for calling Web Services: HttpWebRequest, WebClient and HttpClient. At the time, I suggested WebClient was the simplest ...

Seven social media posts preview changes spanning Markdown image handling, merge conflicts, keyboard shortcuts, testing and AI chat.

VS Code 1.137 adds Preview Automations for recurring agent tasks on schedules. Experimental Voice Mode supports spoken agent conversations with interruption and session awareness. Experimental GitHub ...

It's a little more than one month into the new year, and there's a wave of new Visual Studio extensions available specifically for Visual Studio 2013. With Visual Studio 2015 just around the corner ...

Test projects give you a way to exercise your code to see if it works but they're also part of your project's "permanent record." If all you want to do is try something out with some throwaway code, C ...

GitHub's clearest financial concessions include larger individual-plan allowances, temporary enterprise credits and a 10 percent discount for automatic model selection. New controls can limit spending ...

If you know how to create an ASP.NET MVC View, you know a great deal about how to create pages in Blazor. But, by packaging up pages as Blazor Components, you can use (and re-use) those pages more ...

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