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Get started with GitHub Copilot CLI: A free, hands-on course
Learn GitHub Copilot CLI with this free, 8-chapter hands-on course. Review code, generate tests, debug issues, and build custom agents and skills - all from your terminal. No AI experience needed. Works with GitHub Copilot Free. Clone the repo or open in Codespaces to get started.
Read moreClick to read more about this postPlatform Engineering for the Agentic AI era
For the last decade, platform engineering has relied on explicit API interaction layers: CLIs, SDKs, pipelines, wrappers, and UI workflows that translate human intent into machine‑safe API calls. AI agents are now short‑circuiting much of that stack. By combining natural language...
Read moreClick to read more about this postVisual Studio at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026
Join us at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 for a deep dive into Visual Studio, GitHub Copilot, PowerToys, and the Windows tools that speed up your daily dev workflow. We'll show how these tools work together to boost productivity and cut friction across your entire inner loop.
Session...
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Feb 19, 2026
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C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness for GitHub Copilot in VS Code
C++ code navigation and build system tooling play an important role in the developer inner-loop. Code navigation tooling provides a precise, semantic understanding of your codebase, while build system tooling helps you express build configurations and variants for reproducible builds. In...
C++ Team Blog
Feb 19, 2026
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Custom Agents in Visual Studio: Built in and Build-Your-Own agents
Rhea,
Kelly
Agents in Visual Studio now go beyond a single general-purpose assistant. We're shipping a set of curated preset agents that tap into deep IDE capabilities; debugging, profiling, testing alongside a framework for building your own custom agents tailored to how your team works.
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Visual Studio Blog
Feb 19, 2026
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Exploring the signals the dialog manager uses for dismissing a dialog
Summarizing the flow.
The Old New Thing
Feb 19, 2026
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Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools v14.51 Preview Released: How to Opt In
Today we are releasing the first preview of the Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools version 14.51. This update, shipping in the latest Visual Studio 2026 version 18.4 Insiders release, introduces many C++23 conformance changes, bug fixes, and runtime performance improvements. Check out the...
C++ Team Blog
Feb 18, 2026
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What's new in Microsoft Foundry | Dec 2025 & Jan 2026
Catch up on all the new models, audio updates, fine-tuning expansions, and SDK updates from Microsoft Foundry spanning December 2025 and January 2026 — including GPT-5.2, Codex Max, DeepSeek V3.2, FLUX.2, and the azure-ai-projects v2 beta consolidation.
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Feb 18, 2026
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Python Environments Extension for VS Code
The February 2026 release This release includes the Python Environments extension... Keep on reading to learn more!
Microsoft for Python Developers Blog
Feb 18, 2026
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Federating Databases with Data API Builder Chaining
For decades, DBAs relied on linked servers to stitch data together. If you needed data from two places, you wired them up and moved on. It worked. It was straightforward. It felt native to SQL.
But what if linked servers are not an option? What if policy blocks them? What if one of the...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Feb 18, 2026
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TFVC Remove Existing Obsolete Policies ASAP
In April 2025, we announced the deprecation schedule for legacy TFVC check-in policies. This change was required due to limitations in how those policies were previously implemented and stored. The old policies have been marked as obsolete, and you can replace them by selecting the...
Azure DevOps Blog
Feb 18, 2026
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Could WriteProcessMemory be made faster by avoiding the intermediate buffer?
I guess it could, but why bother?
The Old New Thing