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GitHub Copilot Dev Days: Build faster with GitHub Copilot CLI, in VS Code & Visual Studio, and beyond!

Modern software development is moving fast—and AI is now a practical part of how Microsoft developers design, build, and ship applications every day. From writing code in Visual Studio and VS Code, to building cloud-native apps on Azure, developers are looking for ways to stay...
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Nov 13, 2025
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Ensuring Seamless User Experience in Modernization Projects with AI‑Generated Stagehand and Playwright UI Tests

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Suganya Srinivasan
Using AI‑generated tools like Stagehand with Microsoft's Playwright helps ensure a smooth user experience during modernization efforts such as Hyper Velocity Engineering and monolith-to-microservices migrations.
ISE Developer Blog
The list of C++ tools available for Agent Mode to invoke
Nov 12, 2025
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Perform wide-sweeping refactors using C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot

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Sinem Akinci
Refactoring a C++ codebase can often require tracking updates across various sections of multiple files to ensure accuracy and relevancy.  Historically, developers have relied on manual searches across a codebase and refactoring tools to perform these types of edits. However, with...
C++ Team Blog
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Nov 12, 2025
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Optimize Your C++ Build Times with GitHub Copilot

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David Li
Long build times are one of the top pain points for C++ projects. If you’ve ever waited too long for a C++ build to finish, you know how much it can slow down your productivity. In past years, we introduced C++ Build Insights to help you analyze traces and find bottlenecks. However, we...
C++ Team Blog
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Nov 12, 2025
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Fix build issues using GitHub Copilot after upgrading MSVC Build Tools

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Michael Price
A few problems have reared their heads at every company where I’ve worked on C++ as a Software Engineer over the past 20 years. For the most part, those problems have nothing to do with the language and how it is used, but instead all the “other” stuff, like dealing with long...
C++ Team Blog
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Nov 12, 2025
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October 2025 (version 1.106)

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Visual Studio Code Team
Learn what is new in the Visual Studio Code October 2025 Release (1.106). Read the full article
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Nov 12, 2025
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Session Guide to Microsoft Foundry @ Microsoft Ignite: Must-See Developer Sessions

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Sandra Perez
Microsoft Ignite 2025 is the ultimate opportunity for developers to dive deep into what’s new with Azure AI Foundry. We curated the top sessions designed for hands-on learning, practical demos, and expert insights. Whether you’re building AI apps, orchestrating multi-agent systems, or...
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Nov 12, 2025
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Introducing Copilot auto model selection (preview)

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Faster responses, a lower chance of rate limiting, and 10% off premium requests for paid users - auto picks the best available model for each request based on current capacity and performance. With auto, you don't need to choose a specific model. Copilot automatically selects the best one...
Visual Studio Blog
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Nov 12, 2025
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Non-recursively deleting a binary tree in constant space: Rotating the tree

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Raymond Chen
Preserving in-order while linearizing.
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Nov 12, 2025
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Fall 2025 Windows Musician Technology and Arm64 Update

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Pete Brown
It's no surprise that Arm64 PCs hit a sweet spot for music creation and live performance. They are thin and light, have excellent battery life (I used a Surface Laptop 7 at the entire NAMM show and never had to charge it despite giving presentations and demos), great screens, USB-4 ports...
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