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⚡Foundry Toolkit for VS Code: A Deep Dive on GA | Microsoft Community Hub As we shared in the announcement, Microsoft Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code is now generally available. In this deep dive, we walk through...

Foundry Toolkit for VS Code: A Deep Dive on GA | by Junjie Li

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#vscode #ai #foundry #aitoolkit #aimodels #agents #microsoftfoundry #foundrytoolkit

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Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

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#android #ai #cli #agents #androidsdk #devtools #terminal #appdev

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Microsoft Foundry Toolkit for VS Code is Now Generally Available | Microsoft Community Hub We are thrilled to announce that the Microsoft Foundry Toolkit for VS Code, formerly AI Toolkit, is now Generally Available (GA)! From first model...

Microsoft Foundry Toolkit for VS Code is Now Generally Available

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#vscode #ai #foundry #agents #aimodels #foundrytoolkit #aitoolkit #microsoftfoundry

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Visual Studio Code 1.117 Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.117 (Insiders)

Visual Studio Code 1.117 Release

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#vscode #programming #githubcopilot #softwaredev

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From AI to .NET: 20 VS Live! Las Vegas Sessions You Can Watch Now - Visual Studio Blog Watch 20 top sessions from VS Live! Las Vegas 2026, covering AI, .NET, Azure, Visual Studio, and developer productivity, now streaming on YouTube.

From AI to .NET: 20 VS Live! Las Vegas Sessions You Can Watch Now

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#visualstudio #vslive #ai #dotnet #learning #cloud

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Claude Opus 4.7 is available on Microsoft Foundry | Microsoft Community Hub Anthropic continues to push the frontier of AI for real-world, production work with its new model Claude Opus 4.7.  Opus 4.7 is Anthropic’s...

Claude Opus 4.7 is available on Microsoft Foundry

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#foundry #opus47 #aimodels #azure #cloud #claude #anthropic

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Free Your Terminal with Detached Mode in Aspire 13.2 Aspire 13.2 brings detached mode to the CLI. Free your terminal and let coding agents start, inspect, and manage your app without blocking.

Free Your Terminal with Detached Mode in Aspire 13.2 | by James Newton-King

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#aspire #cloudnative #terminal #cli #cloud #softwaredev

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The Fourth Beta of Android 17 News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

The Fourth Beta of Android 17

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#android #appdev #androidsdk #mobiledev #android17

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Introducing Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Introducing Claude Opus 4.7

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#ai #claudeopus #opus47 #anthropic #aimodels

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My least favorite week since last year. 😣

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.NET MAUI State Management: From ViewModels to App Stores Learn production-ready state management in .NET MAUI using MVVM, VSM, DI app-wide stores, and MVU, plus guidance on when to use each.

.NET MAUI State Management: From ViewModels to App Stores

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#dotnetmaui #appdev #ref #syncfusion #dotnet #xaml #csharp #mvvm

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Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter 479 - Week Ending April 17, 2026 Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter 479 - Week Ending April 17, 2026

Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter 479 - Week Ending April 17, 2026

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#dewdrop #newsletter #javascript #azure #css #aspnetcore #aspire #xaml #appdev #windowsdev #cpp #dotnet #csharp #ai #mcp #agile #devops #dotnetmaui #podcasts #m365 #sqlserver #data #powershell #terminal

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Dew Drop – April 17, 2026 (#4649) – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – April 17, 2026 (#4649)

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#dotnet #webdev #csharp #windowsdev #ai #appdev #cloud #visualstudio #vscode #github #dewdrop

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GitHub Copilot CLI Just Went Remote — This Changes Everything GitHub just launched remote control for Copilot CLI sessions, letting you monitor and steer your terminal from the web or GitHub Mobile. When you start a session with copilot --remote, the CLI…

GitHub Copilot CLI Remote Sessions: Monitor, Steer, Ship — From Any Device | with James Montemagno

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#githubcopilot #ai #cli #agents #softwaredev #commandline

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What’s new in Microsoft Entra – March 2026 | Microsoft Community Hub This quarterly roundup highlights the latest feature releases and change announcements, organized by product so you can quickly assess what’s new, what’s...

What’s new in Microsoft Entra – March 2026

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#azure #entra #identity #microsoftentra #cloud

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We rebuilt Flutter’s websites with Dart and Jaspr Despite Dart starting out as a web language and being used every day to build apps across platforms, including the web, our own websites…

We rebuilt Flutter’s websites with Dart and Jaspr

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#dartlang #flutter #webdev #jaspr

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Azure MCP tools now ship built into Visual Studio 2022 — no extension required - Visual Studio Blog Azure MCP tools are now built into Visual Studio 2022 as part of the Azure development workload — no separate extension to find, install, or update. You can enable over 230 tools across 45 Azure…

Azure MCP tools now ship built into Visual Studio 2022 — no extension required

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#visualstudio #azure #ai #mcp #agents #vs2022 #ide #githubcopilot

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Understanding AI's Impact on Developer Workflows | The Research Blog Here we present our findings from our HAX team’s mixed-method study, which shows how developers’ workflow has evolved with AI tools. A major takeaway from the study is that AI redistributes and…

Understanding AI’s Impact on Developer Workflows | JetBrains Research

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#ai #softwaredev #devtools #research #trends

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Architecting Secure and Trustworthy AI Agents with Microsoft Foundry | Microsoft Community Hub Co-Authored by Avneesh Kaushik Why Trust Matters for AI Agents Unlike static ML models, AI agents call tools and APIs, retrieve enterprise data, generate...

Architecting Secure and Trustworthy AI Agents with Microsoft Foundry

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#foundry #ai #cloud #azure #rai #security #microsoftfoundry #agents

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Build a personal organization command center with GitHub Copilot CLI Learn about the productivity tool one GitHub engineer built, and how AI supported the development process.

Build a personal organization command center with GitHub Copilot CLI

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#githubcopilot #ai #copilotcli #commandline #cli #agents

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Stop Hunting Bugs: Meet the New Visual Studio Debugger Agent Workflow - Visual Studio Blog Learn about the new Visual Studio debugger agent that helps streamline debugging, making it easier to tackle bug reports effectively.

Stop Hunting Bugs: Meet the New Visual Studio Debugger Agent Workflow | by Harshada Hole

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#visualstudio #debugging #dotnet #agents #productivity #ai #ide

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How to Digitally Sign PDFs in Android Apps with .NET MAUI | Syncfusion Blogs Sign Android PDFs using a .NET MAUI Android PDF digital signature library. Learn to sign new or existing files, customize visible signatures, and add timestamps.

How to Digitally Sign PDFs in Android Apps with .NET MAUI

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#dotnetmaui #syncfusion #xaml #ref #dotnet #appdev #csharp

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Dew Drop – April 16, 2026 (#4648)

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#dotnet #ai #webdev #csharp #windowsdev #sqlserver #visualstudio #appdev #cloud #dewdrop

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Access your dev environment from any device YouTube video by Kayla Cinnamon ☕

Access your local dev environment from any device using the new GitHub Copilot CLI /remote command!

Here's a full walkthrough:
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Keynote: The Road to Visual Studio 2027: Building a Faster, Smarter IDE | VS Live Las Vegas 2026 What does the future of development look like in the age of AI? In this @VisualStudioLive session from Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026, Mads Kristensen explores how Visual Studio 2026 is evolving…

Keynote: The Road to Visual Studio 2027: Building a Faster, Smarter IDE | VS Live Las Vegas 2026 with Mads Kristensen

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#visualstudio #vslive #dotnet #ide #microsoft #vs2027 #githubcopilot

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Visual Studio 2026 release notes Learn about the latest features, bug fixes, and support for Visual Studio 2026. Download today.

Visual Studio 2026 April Update 18.5.0 Release Notes | Microsoft Learn

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#visualstudio #vs2026 #ide #dotnet #productivity #githubcopilot

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SSMS 22.5 Release SSMS 22.5 is now available and includes improvements for SQL projects, the Migration component, the connection dialog, and support for interactions with the...

Announcing SQL Server Management Studio 22.5 | by Erin Stellato

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#sqlserver #ssms #database #azuresql #data #sqlprojects

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Jon Graf, Rob Richardson, Sarah Little & Mike Benkovich have Sessions on Software Craftsmanship this July at Nebraska.Code().

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#SoftwareCraftsmanship #Consulting #Deployment #FeatureFlags #QualityAssurance #Tech #QualityImprovement #Terraform #Pulumi
#coding #heartland

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ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 11 Preview 3 · dotnet aspnetcore · Discussion #66319 Here's a summary of what's new in ASP.NET Core in this preview release: Zstandard response compression and request decompression Virtualize adapts to variable-height items at runtime HTTP/3 starts ...

#ASPNETCore updates in .NET 11 Preview 3 | by Dan Roth

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#dotnet #webdev #blazor #csharp

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.NET 11 Preview 3 is now available! - .NET Blog Find out about the new features in .NET 11 Preview 3 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, C#, Entity Framework Core, container images, and more!

.NET 11 Preview 3 is now available

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#dotnet #aspnetcore #csharp #dotnetmaui #blazor #efcore

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