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Ask Mode vs Agent Mode - Choosing the Right Copilot Experience for .NET
GitHub Copilot Chat offers two powerful modes, Ask Mode and Agent Mode, that can dramatically accelerate your development. Learn when to use each mode to get the most out of this tool.
Read moreBuild Smarter with the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit MCP Server
As AI agents become central to how we build and interact with modern productivity apps, developers need tools that are flexible, standard-based, and deeply integrated with AI. That’s where the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit MCP Server comes in.
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Read moreAzure Developer CLI: From Dev to Prod with One Click
This post walks through how to implement a "build once, deploy everywhere" pattern using Azure Developer CLI (azd) that provisions environment-specific infrastructure and promotes applications from dev to prod with the same build artifacts. You'll learn how to use conditional Bicep...
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May 15, 2025
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Celebrating 50 Million Developers: The Journey of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code
Today, I'm thrilled to share that we've hit an incredible milestone together: 50 million developers are actively using Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code each month. That's 50 million of you writing code, debugging late into the night, collaborating on projects, and building the...
Microsoft for Developers
May 15, 2025
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Evaluating content safety in your .NET AI applications
Announcing content safety evaluations and other imporvements in the Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation libraries.
.NET Blog
May 15, 2025
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How do I force RunOnce commands to run in a specific order?
Run them in the desired order yourself.
The Old New Thing
May 15, 2025
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Cloud infrastructure provisioning: best practices for IaC
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Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) is a common DevOps practice that enterprises use to provision and deploy IT infrastructure. Enterprises applying IaC and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines can maintain high availability and manage risk for their cloud environments at scale. However, multi-environment challenges, manual processes, and fragmented guidance still lead to configuration drift, errors, and inconsistencies. These issues are likely to result in downtime, security vulnerabilities, and inefficient resource utilization.
ISE Developer Blog
May 14, 2025
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If I mark my thread pool callback as long-running, does it still count toward the thread pool thread limit?
Yes, because it's still in the thread pool.
The Old New Thing
May 14, 2025
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Beyond the tools, adding MCP in VS Code
Bring your own tools to VS Code's agent mode with MCP.
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VS Code Blog
May 13, 2025
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Accelerate AI Applications with Semantic Caching on Azure Managed Redis
In this blog, we will look at implementing the Semantic caching use case using Azure Managed Redis. Azure has been at the forefront of providing caching solutions for over a decade with the Azure Cache for Redis enterprise. This service empowered developers with a high-performance,...
All things Azure
May 13, 2025
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Eclipse + GitHub Copilot = Lightspeed SAP ABAP Development
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Did you catch the GitHub's recent announcement of ABAP support in GitHub Copilot for Eclipse? It is a significant step forward for SAP developers. This integration brings AI-powered code suggestions and chat functionalities directly into the Eclipse IDE, potentially...
All things Azure
May 13, 2025
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What’s New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.14
Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14 is now generally available! This post summarizes the new features you can find in this release for C++. You can download Visual Studio 2022 from the Visual Studio downloads page or upgrade your existing installation by following the Update Visual Studio...
C++ Team Blog