Tips & How-To Articles, Tutorials

  • Empowering AI Applications with Vector Search in SQL Server and Azure Cosmos DB

    Bring AI to your database! Learn how to build smarter apps with vector search in SQL Server & Azure Cosmos DB -- no extra AI stack required. 05/27/2025

  • Responsible AI Frameworks: An Introduction

    Karen Lopez will explain the ethical guidance that underpins responsible AI development, with a special focus on large language models, at VSLive! San Diego in July. 05/22/2025

  • Asynchronous and Parallel Programming in C#

    Developer educator and .NET MVP Jeremy Clark talks concurrent programming ahead of an intermediate-level two-day training session next month. 05/20/2025

  • Matrix Inverse Using Newton Iteration with C#

    Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of computing a matrix inverse using the Newton iteration algorithm. Compared to other algorithms, Newton iteration is simple and easy to customize, but the technique is relatively slow. 05/15/2025

  • Predicting the Future Using Azure Machine Learning

    Eric D. Boyd of responsiveX previews his VSLive! 2025 session at Microsoft HQ in August where he explains how Azure ML empowers teams to build, deploy, and manage machine learning models with ease and confidence. 05/13/2025

  • Linear Regression with Two-Way Interactions Using C#

    Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression with two-way interactions between predictor variables. Compared to standard linear regression, which predicts a single numeric value based only on a linear combination of predictor values, linear regression with interactions can handle more complex data while retaining a high level of model interpretability. 05/02/2025

  • Vibe Writing

    Why outline when you can prompt? Vibe writing is the new vibe coding, and yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like. 05/01/2025

  • 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. 04/29/2025

  • 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. 04/23/2025

  • 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. 04/22/2025

  • Nadaraya-Watson Kernel Regression Using C#

    Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of Nadaraya-Watson kernel regression using the C# language. NW kernel regression is simple to implement and is especially effective for small datasets. 04/18/2025

  • Mapping OpenAI's Full AI Suite After Codex CLI Debut

    Helping developers sort out which AI does what amid the growing clutter. 04/17/2025

  • 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. 04/08/2025

  • 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. 04/01/2025

  • Linear Support Vector Regression from Scratch Using C# with Evolutionary Training

    Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the linear support vector regression (linear SVR) technique, where the goal is to predict a single numeric value. A linear SVR model uses an unusual error/loss function and cannot be trained using standard simple techniques, and so evolutionary optimization training is used. 04/01/2025

  • 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. 03/26/2025

  • Neural Network Quantile Regression Using C#

    Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of neural network quantile regression. The goal of a quantile regression problem is to predict a single numeric value with an assurance such as, "The predicted y value is 0.6789 and there's roughly a 90% chance the prediction will be greater than or equal to the true y value." 03/17/2025

  • 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. 03/06/2025

  • How to Unlock Visual Studio 2022's Preview Features Like Claude Sonnet 3.7 AI Model

    Some developers complained that advanced AI models come sooner to VS Code than Visual Studio, but the new Claude Sonnet 3.7 model is now available in IDE with a paid GitHub Copilot account and a simple settings tweak in GitHub. 03/05/2025

  • Poisson Regression Using C#

    Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demo of Poisson regression, where the goal is to predict a count of things arriving, such as the number of telephone calls received in a 10-minute interval at a call center. When your source data is close to mathematically Poisson distributed, Poisson regression is simple and effective. 03/03/2025

  • 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. 02/20/2025

  • Naive Bayes Regression Using C#

    Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the naive Bayes regression technique, where the goal is to predict a single numeric value. Compared to other machine learning regression techniques, naive Bayes regression is usually less accurate, but is simple, easy to implement and customize, works on both large and small datasets, is highly interpretable, and doesn't require tuning any hyperparameters. 02/20/2025

  • 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. 02/19/2025

  • 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#. 02/11/2025

  • 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? 02/05/2025

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