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New controls for model reasoning and Copilot code-review depth let developers decide how much AI effort a task warrants, with speed, depth and credit consumption all part of the tradeoff.
08/11/2026
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C# expert Mark Michaelis explores what .NET developers still need to learn for themselves as AI takes on more coding work, highlighting DevOps, testing, technical debt and the engineering discipline needed to keep agentic development on track.
08/11/2026
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Two months after GitHub Copilot adopted usage-based billing, developers continue to report rapidly disappearing AI credits, question Copilot's economics and compare its costs with competing coding agents.
08/07/2026
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The variance inflation factor (VIF) of a dataset column is a value that measures the mathematical correlation of the column with other columns in the dataset. If a dataset has two or more columns that are correlated, the dataset is called multicollinear.
08/03/2026
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Microsoft's July release adds a Copilot Chat agent preview, workload-specific skills, shared instructions, branch context and C++ build controls.
07/30/2026
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A hobby coder's rough return to Visual Studio highlights how IntelliSense, IntelliCode and GitHub Copilot have created several overlapping layers of code completion -- along with settings intended to keep them from fighting for attention.
07/28/2026
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With devs reeling from usage-based billing sticker shock, Visual Studio 18.9 makes monthly Copilot plan usage easier to reach from the coding workflow while adding more cost information to a redesigned model picker.
07/24/2026
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Microsoft is moving Agent Skills beyond bring-your-own instructions by shipping expert-authored workflows with the IDE, while keeping them off by default until testing shows their benefits justify the additional token use.
07/21/2026
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GitHub is layering spending limits, expanded credit allowances and increasingly granular usage reporting onto Copilot, while Microsoft is reworking Visual Studio and VS Code to expose -- and reduce -- the cost of agentic development.
07/20/2026
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Microsoft is keeping Visual Studio's new built-in Agent Skills switched off by default while a public dashboard measures whether their performance gains justify the additional tokens they may consume.
07/16/2026
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Microsoft's sixth .NET 11 preview advances async validation, C# unions, cross-platform UI controls, database queries, testing tools, Native AOT and container images.
07/15/2026
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Beyond Copilot usage visibility, the June update delivers several other enhancements centered on AI-assisted development, security and quality-of-life improvements. Here's a quick rundown of the remaining additions announced by Microsoft.
07/13/2026
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Microsoft says TypeScript 7, announced July 8, brings native Go performance to VS Code, Visual Studio and other editors.
07/08/2026
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SkiaSharp 4.148.0 is the first stable v4 release, bringing a newer Skia engine, API cleanup, performance work and a Microsoft-Uno co-maintenance model.
06/30/2026
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Microsoft's Go-based TypeScript rewrite has reached Release Candidate status, moving from a separate native-preview package into the regular TypeScript npm package while leaving some ecosystem-facing API work for TypeScript 7.1 or later.
06/22/2026
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A Microsoft MVP Blog post on Visual Studio Live!'s longevity arrives as the 2026 conference series continues with upcoming stops at Microsoft HQ, San Diego and Orlando.
06/18/2026
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.NET 11 Preview 5 focuses on under-the-hood runtime performance gains, streamlined APIs and language features that reduce boilerplate, plus built‑in security checks and incremental ASP.NET Core and EF Core improvements aimed at everyday developer productivity.
06/12/2026
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Microsoft's Build 2026 Windows developer announcements point to a broader platform strategy for agentic AI, spanning terminal workflows, local models, app-building skills, Cloud PCs and operating system-level containment.
06/02/2026
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Uno Platform is positioning itself as a cross-platform modernization path for Windows Presentation Foundation apps, combining incremental migration, AI-assisted code translation, Model Context Protocol tooling and runtime validation.
05/28/2026
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Microsoft Senior Content Developer Alvin Ashcraft explains how to use .NET MAUI, the MAUI Community Toolkit and MVVM Toolkit to speed up cross-platform app development with practical patterns for XAML, C# Markup and device features
05/28/2026
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Microsoft is applying lessons from Rust to C# in a planned redesign of the unsafe code model, continuing a years-long company focus on reducing memory-safety risks historically associated with C and C++
05/27/2026
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Microsoft highlighted Copilot planning, context visibility, diff review updates and MSVC Build Tools v14.51 in its May Visual Studio update.
05/26/2026
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Jason Bock shares practical guidance for building faster .NET applications, avoiding modernization pitfalls, and using proven performance resources to keep improving over time.
05/26/2026
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Developers are pressing Microsoft to restore the Blue theme in Visual Studio 2026, arguing that the issue is about contrast, readability and usability rather than nostalgia for an old color scheme.
05/22/2026
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.NET 11 Preview 4 delivers a broad set of developer-facing updates across .NET MAUI, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, Entity Framework Core, the SDK, libraries and runtime performance work.
05/21/2026
