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Vibe Writing

Why outline when you can prompt? Vibe writing is the new vibe coding, and yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like.

Next-gen SQL Projects with Microsoft.Build.Sql

SQL development is evolving fast, and Microsoft's Drew Skwiers-Koballa will explain it all in a featured session at the VS Live! @ Microsoft HQ developer conference being held at the company's Redmond campus in August.

Hands On with Microsoft's AI Playground in a Windows App

Microsoft reintroduced the AI Dev Gallery, a Windows application that serves as a comprehensive playground for AI development using .NET. It simplifies AI development with .NET through interactive samples, easy model downloads, and exportable source code.

Mastering Modern JavaScript

Master the latest features of modern JavaScript in a hands-on workshop covering clean code techniques, async programming, templating, and full-stack development with Node.js.

Mapping OpenAI's Full AI Suite After Codex CLI Debut

Helping developers sort out which AI does what amid the growing clutter.

Creating Business Applications Using Blazor

Expert Blazor programmer Michael Washington' will present an upcoming developer education session on building high-performance business applications using Blazor, focusing on core concepts, integration with .NET, and best practices for development.

Mastering Blazor Authentication and Authorization

At the Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ developer conference set for August, Rockford Lhotka will explain the ins and outs of authentication across Blazor Server, WebAssembly, and .NET MAUI Hybrid apps, and show how to use identity and claims to customize application behavior through fine-grained authorization.

Vibe Coding with Latest Visual Studio Preview

Microsoft's latest Visual Studio preview facilitates "vibe coding," where developers mainly use GitHub Copilot AI to do all the programming in accordance with spoken or typed instructions.

Building Generative AI Applications with Azure AI Foundry

With everyone scrambling to keep abreast of the rapidly advancing GenAI space, where some new tool or tech seems to be announced every week, Azure AI Foundry has emerged as a crucial end-to-end platform in the Microsoft-centric developer space.

Hands On: New VS Code Insiders Build Creates Web Page from Image in Seconds

New Vision support with GitHub Copilot in the latest Visual Studio Code Insiders build takes a user-supplied mockup image and creates a web page from it in seconds, handling all the HTML and CSS.

Introduction to .NET Aspire

Two Microsoft experts will present on the cloud-native application stack designed to simplify the development of distributed systems in .NET at the Visual Studio Live! developer conference coming to Las Vegas next month.

Integrating AI into Your Existing Applications Using Semantic Kernel and C#

At the upcoming Visual Studio Live! conference in Las Vegas, Marcel de Vries, Global MD & CTO at Xebia, will present a session on how developers can leverage Semantic Kernel to build AI-enhanced applications with C#.

Copilot Engineering in the Cloud with Azure and GitHub

Who better to lead a full-day deep dive into this tech than two experts from GitHub, which introduced the original "AI pair programmer" and spawned the ubiquitous Copilot moniker?

Useful New-ish Features in .NET/C#

We often hear about the big new features in .NET or C#, but what about all of those lesser known, but useful new features? How exactly do you use constructs like collection indices and ranges, date features, and pattern matching?

Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database

Microsoft experts are making the rounds educating developers about the company's new, opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native applications with .NET.

Building Blazor Applications

A trio of Blazor experts will conduct a full-day workshop for devs to learn everything about the tech a a March developer conference in Las Vegas keynoted by Microsoft execs and featuring many Microsoft devs.

The Science Behind User Interface Design

UI design expert Billy Hollis helps developers and designers grasp the principles of the human visual system to create interfaces that are not only functional but also intuitive and engaging.

Diving Deep into .NET MAUI

Ever since someone figured out that fiddling bits results in source code, developers have sought one codebase for all types of apps on all platforms, with Microsoft's latest attempt to further that effort being .NET MAUI.

Versioning and Documenting ASP.NET Core Services

Building an API with ASP.NET Core is only half the job. If your API is going to live more than one release cycle, you're going to need to version it. If you have other people building clients for it, you're going to need to document it.

Build Your First AI Applications with Local AI

"AI right now feels like a vast space which can be hard to jump into," says Craig Loewen, a senior product manager at Microsoft who is helping devs unsure about making that first daunting leap.

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