TypeScript 7.0 Beta Arrives on Go-Based Foundation With 10x Speed Claim -- Visual Studio Magazine Microsoft says the beta is production-ready for many day-to-day workflows and CI pipelines.

Microsoft has now officially launched TypeScript 7.0 Beta. 🚀 The headline: a Go-based compiler/tooling foundation, an "often" 10x speed claim over TS 6.0, npm install via @typescript/native-preview@beta, and side-by-side transition guidance for TS 6.0. 💻⚙️
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.NET 11 Previews Focus on Nuts-and-Bolts Coding -- AI Not So Much -- Visual Studio Magazine Remember when you had to really dig in concentrate and understand exactly how C# and other code worked at the most basic levels? Then you'll like Microsoft's early preview of .NET 11.

Rather than🤖,they’re much more about core coding work ⚙️, from runtime and SDK changes to ASP.NET Core updates 📦, with C# 15 union types 🧩 standing out most.
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At VSLive!, Mads Kristensen Lets 'the Cat out of the Bag' on Visual Studio 2027 -- Visual Studio Magazine At VSLive! Las Vegas, Mads Kristensen revealed Visual Studio 2027 as part of a broader shift toward AI-assisted development and a more continuous release cadence for Microsoft's flagship IDE.

He used his @VSLive Las Vegas keynote to reveal VS 2027 🐱 and discuss AI-assisted workflows 🤖, profiling with Copilot ⚙️ & a more continuous update model for the IDE 💻.
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Hands On with Microsoft's New VS Code Agents Preview -- Now in Insiders -- Visual Studio Magazine Now shipping in the VS Code Insiders build, Microsoft's new Visual Studio Code Agents preview offers an early look at a separate companion app for agent sessions, approvals, workspace discovery, and s...

🚧 Tried the new VS Code Agents 🤖preview in Insiders. Early friction, but once inside my workspace it mapped my agent files, built a workflow note, and handled a review loop 📝
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VS Code Updates Boost AI Agents, Terminal Control and Copilot Workflow -- Visual Studio Magazine Across the April 8 and April 15, 2026 releases, Visual Studio Code expanded its agent-focused tooling with a new companion app, better terminal interaction, session debugging and more built-in Copilot...

VS Code kept pushing deeper into AI workflows 🤖 -- 1.115 brought the new Agents app, and 1.116 added persistent agent debug logs 🛠️ plus more terminal control 💻
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How to Debug Team Problems Before They Derail Delivery -- Visual Studio Magazine Amber Vanderburg discusses how engineering leaders can spot and fix the “silent bugs” in team dynamics before they turn into bigger delivery problems.

Debugging isn’t just for code 🛠️ In this Q&A,⁉️ Amber Vanderburg explains how engineering leaders can spot the “silent bugs”🪲 in team dynamics before they derail delivery 🚦
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Going Local (& a Bit Loco) with Open-Source AI in VS Code -- Visual Studio Magazine This hands-on PoC shows how I got an open-source model running locally in Visual Studio Code, where the setup worked, where it broke down, and what to watch out for if you want to apply a local model to a real workflow.

Running open-source AI locally in VS Code worked, but modest hardware, model constraints and slow performance made it far from a drop-in replacement for a cloud model.

Explore what this means for local AI workflows: https://ow.ly/5FCE50YKo4v

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Quadratic Regression with SGD Training Using JavaScript -- Visual Studio Magazine Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of quadratic regression, with SGD training, implemented from scratch, using JavaScript. Compared to standard linear regression, quadratic regression is better able to handle data with a non-linear structure, and data with interactions between predictor variables.

Quadratic regression doesn’t have to be complicated.

In this step-by-step demo, Dr. James McCaffrey shows how to build and train a model with SGD in JavaScript, handling non-linear data with strong accuracy.

Dive deeper: https://ow.ly/QAqM50YIOaN

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BFF and SPAs: Best Friends Forever -- Visual Studio Magazine Christian Wenz explains why the Backends for Frontends (BFF) pattern is emerging as a more secure authentication model for single-page applications.

SPAs and OAuth tokens in the browser can be a risky mix 🔐 Christian Wenz will explain why the BFF pattern is gaining attention as a more secure approach for auth at Visual Studio Live! @ MS HQ in July.💻
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Microsoft Ships Production-Ready Agent Framework 1.0 for .NET and Python -- Visual Studio Magazine Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel foundatio...

🚀Production-ready, long-term support version of Microsoft's open-source stack for building AI agents & multi-agent workflows across .NET and Python, includes review features.🧠
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Can OpenClaw Challenge Copilot in VS Code? -- Visual Studio Magazine A proof of concept used OpenClaw's localhost dashboard inside VS Code's integrated browser to compare it directly with Copilot on the same SKILL.md file, finding that OpenClaw delivered broader, more ...

Not impressed with existing VS Code extensions, I took the novel approach of using OpenClaw's web control in the editor's integrated browser & testing it against Copilot to see if anything was lost. It wasn't.
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10 New Tools for Visual Studio 2026 from Mads Kristensen -- Visual Studio Magazine In a new video, Mads Kristensen walked through 10 extensions and updates aimed at common developer requests, spanning workspace modes, comment handling, scratch files, Markdown linting, CSV editing, A...

🛠️ Aimed at real dev friction -- from Modes, Scratch Files & Markdown Lint to CSV Editor, Azure Explorer & VS Pets. Theme: many came straight from user requests, Reddit & other feedback channels.
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Behind every major shift in technology are the people building and leading what comes next. Women are part of that progress.

In observance of Women in Tech Day tomorrow, we are reflecting on the role women play across the industry.

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Hands On with OpenClaw Node for VS Code: Real Workflow, Real Friction -- Visual Studio Magazine OpenClaw's Node for VS Code extension proved it can support a real local file-based workflow, but on Windows the experience still feels more like early infrastructure than finished tooling.

I finally got OpenClaw Node for VS Code 🦞working on Windows🪟, and yes, it can do a real workspace-based editorial PoC. It can also make you earn every inch of that result. 😅
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OpenClaw Gets a Microsoft 365 Champion While VS Code Tooling Stays Nascent -- Visual Studio Magazine Omar Shahine's new Microsoft role focused on bringing OpenClaw and personal agents to Microsoft 365 adds weight to the workplace-assistant story for the open-source AI framework, even as its current V...

An MS OpenClaw champion -- but the signal points to Teams & Microsoft 365, not VS Code. One reply to Omar Shahine's post cut right to it: "Can you just give us a decent CLI?" 🦞
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Visual Studio Code 1.114 Keeps Weekly Cadence Rolling with Chat, Search and TypeScript Updates -- Visual Studio Magazine A smaller weekly VS Code release adds chat workflow refinements, semantic search changes, TypeScript 6.0, and new admin controls.

🛠️ It keeps the new weekly release cadence 📦 going. This one is more about refinement than splash: chat copy improvements, semantic #codebase search changes, TypeScript 6.0, media carousel video support, and a new admin policy for Claude agent control 🤖
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Decision Tree Regression from Scratch Using JavaScript -- Visual Studio Magazine Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression from scratch using JavaScript. The goal of decision tree regression is to predict a single numeric value. F...

🌳 Dr. James McCaffrey: no pointers, no recursion! Just elegant list iteration. A solid foundation for ensemble models like random forests & gradient boosting.
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I, OpenClaw, Tackled Visual Studio 2026 and I Had My Human Do the Typing -- Visual Studio Magazine What happens when a self-hosted space lobster tries to work in Visual Studio 2026? OpenClaw finds terminal access, project insight, and just enough routing weirdness to send a message to itself instea...

🦞 It works through the terminal & its external control UI, not as a natural in-IDE coding companion. Handled real Blazor file edits, but the workflow is adjacent, not integrated.
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Creating a Custom AI Agent in New Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Build -- Visual Studio Magazine A quick hands-on proof of concept shows how Visual Studio's new custom-agent framework can be aimed at a real Blazor project, along with what else is new in the March update.

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders adds custom AI agents 🤖 and a quick Blazor PoC showed the feature can do more than summarize code -- it can prioritize real issues ⚠️ and explain why they matter 🛠️
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VS Code 1.113 Bundles Agent, Chat and Editor Tweaks as Dev Team Settles into Weekly Releases -- Visual Studio Magazine Microsoft's VS Code 1.113 release packages a range of smaller updates across agent experience, chat experience, and editor experience, arriving as the company shifts the editor to a weekly release cad...

Update is less about 1 big new feature and more about a steady stream of smaller changes 🛠️grouped into agent, chat and editor experience, with AI everywhere.
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Getting My OpenClaw Around VS Code -- Visual Studio Magazine A hands-on test found that OpenClaw can work with VS Code for file-based drafting and source-driven synthesis, but the current experience is still centered on a local gateway and workspace model rathe...

I got a real baseline working: local files, source-based drafting, & workspace manipulation all ok -- but the setup still feels more gateway-first than editor-native, still early though, didn't try any extensions -- yet
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.NET Aspire 13.2 Adds AI-Agent CLI, TypeScript AppHost Support -- Visual Studio Magazine Microsoft has released .NET Aspire 13.2 with a new AI-focused CLI for coding agents, preview TypeScript AppHost support, dashboard updates, and revised integrations.

Featuring a new AI-agent CLI 🤖, it adds more direct agent control over app environments, plus TypeScript AppHost support and dashboard updates.
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Comparing Amazon Q and GitHub Copilot Agentic AI in VS Code -- Visual Studio Magazine This head-to-head test compared Amazon Q Developer and GitHub Copilot Pro using a real-world editorial workflow to evaluate their performance as 'agentic' assistants beyond simple coding. Both tools utilized the Claude 3.5 Sonnet model for these tests.

A hands-on test of Amazon Q Developer and GitHub Copilot in VS Code found that Amazon Q finished complex editorial automation tasks faster, while Copilot delivered stronger editorial rigor.

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TypeScript 6.0 Ships as Final JavaScript-Based Release, Clears Path for Go-Native 7.0 -- Visual Studio Magazine Microsoft released TypeScript 6.0 on March 23, the last version built on the original JavaScript codebase, with three post-RC changes and a wave of deprecations designed to ready codebases for the Go-...

Last release built on the original JavaScript codebase. The big story: it sets up the Go-based TypeScript 7.0, which MS says is "extremely close to completion." ⚡
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Hands On with VS Code 1.112's New Image Analysis for Agents -- Visual Studio Magazine VS Code 1.112 adds native image support for agents, and I used it on three Microsoft AI Foundry leaderboard screenshots to see whether it could turn chart-heavy visuals into a useful developer summary...

Functionality matters because agentic AI needs to understand screenshots, charts, and interfaces -- not just text 🖼️ That makes this a practical step toward real-world developer workflows 📊
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Visual Studio Code 1.112 Adds Integrated Browser Debugging, More Copilot CLI Control -- Visual Studio Magazine Visual Studio Code 1.112, released March 18, expands Copilot agent autonomy, adds MCP server sandboxing on macOS and Linux, enables in-editor web app debugging, and broadens monorepo support for agent...

VS Code 1.112 is out 🚀 Copilot CLI now has a full Autopilot mode -- auto-approves tools, auto-responds, keeps going until the task is done 🤖 Plus: MCP server sandboxing 🔒, in-editor browser debugging, and monorepo agent customizations. March 18, 2026.
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Random Forest Regression Using C# -- Visual Studio Magazine Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end example of random forest regression to predict a single numeric value, implemented using C#. A random forest is a collection of basic decision tree r...

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end example of random forest regression to predict a single numeric value, implemented using C#.
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Going Local (& a Bit Loco) with Open-Source AI in VS Code -- Visual Studio Magazine This hands-on PoC shows how I got an open-source model running locally in Visual Studio Code, where the setup worked, where it broke down, and what to watch out for if you want to apply a local model ...

Tried running open-source AI locally in VS Code on a weak company PC.💻 It worked. Sort of.😅 Ollama + Qwen2.5 got me there, but the gap between "it runs" & "it replaces Claude" was... HUGE. 🐢
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