Along with a new default model, a new Consumptions panel in the IDE helps developers monitor their usage of the various models, paired with UI to help easily switch among models.
Agent mode, MCP, next edit suggestions, and more -- GitHub Copilot is getting smarter in both VS and VS Code. Here's a side-by-side look at what developers get in each IDE.
.NET Aspire 9.3 brings GitHub Copilot to the Aspire dashboard and adds key improvements across publishing, Azure integrations, container management and developer experience.
Microsoft’s new .NET 10 Preview 5 brings post-quantum cryptography to its core libraries, helping developers prepare for the future quantum threat landscape. Here’s what’s new -- and why the industry is moving now.
Visual Studio subscribers can now score a discount to attend VSLive! at Microsoft HQ this August. The conference will showcase a wide range of Microsoft developer experts and sessions on topics like Blazor, AI, SQL, and more -- here’s a preview of what to expect.
Infragistics' Ultimate 25.1 release introduces AI-powered features to its App Builder and updates across the Ignite UI suite, including enhanced Grid components and new UI elements, aiming to streamline app development and boost productivity.
Progress Software's Q2 2025 Telerik and Kendo UI release introduces AI-powered Coding Assistants for Blazor and React, natural language theme generation, and GenAI-based reporting enhancements—aimed at accelerating and simplifying enterprise app development.
.NET's rapid evolution into a lean, AI-driven platform demands constant recalibration—making focused, real-world training more valuable than ever for staying productive and secure.
- By Visual Studio Magazine Editors
- 06/02/2025
Developer educator and .NET MVP Jeremy Clark talks concurrent programming ahead of an intermediate-level two-day training session next month.
Microsoft ushers in a new era at Build 2025, unveiling a wave of AI-powered agents designed to transform software development, supercharge productivity, and redefine the future of coding.
Microsoft this week shipped the fourth preview of .NET 10 without groundbreaking features but with much work devoted to ASP.NET Core & Blazor, where several work items were devoted to OpenAPI.
Agent mode, now in public preview for Visual Studio 17.14, marks a major step forward for AI-assisted development. Unlike previous Copilot features, agent mode can autonomously plan, edit, iterate, and invoke trusted tools-completing complex coding tasks from a single natural language prompt.
Uno Platform, a .NET-centric open source project for building single-codebase apps across multiple platforms, this week announced v6.0 of its flagship offering, which introduces a zero-install, web-based IDE for rapid cross-platform development, alongside a modernized app architecture that embraces MVU and .NET-style extensions.
"What MCP server would be helpful to use with Copilot in Visual Studio? I want to write one."
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.
- By James McCaffrey
- 05/02/2025
Microsoft announced the availability of .NET Aspire 9.2 and the second preview of the .NET AI Chat Web App template, highlighting new capabilities that bring cloud-native orchestration and AI integration closer together in the .NET ecosystem.
Preview 3 features next edit suggestions -- or tab, tab, tab coding -- following previous previews of GPT-4o code completions and assorted Copilot enhancements.
While Preview 3 comes with a wide array of incremental improvements across performance, libraries, CLI tooling, ASP.NET Core/Blazor and more, it doesn't introduce any major new features.
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) for agentic AI has gained much traction since being introduced by Anthropic last November, and now it has a C# SDK.
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.