The Microsoft AI and Azure MVP and longtime VSLive! speaker will help shape technical content and speaker lineups for the 2027 conference series.

Visual Studio Code 1.145 adds remote agent browser and canvas support, more flexible local automations, and new controls for agent sessions.

October updates add deployment previews, Container Apps express support and environment cleanup, alongside stable extension APIs and a breaking Go API migration.

Azure DevOps Server RC (26H2) is available with feature, security and quality improvements. Highlights include an updated Boards interface, pipeline debugging improvements and a new Test Run Hub.

Microsoft's latest Visual Studio Code release expands AI agent capabilities with multi-model orchestration, cloud automations, desktop control and a marketplace for agent customizations.

GitHub has added REST API endpoints for Copilot model policies. Administrators can manage policies across four organizational levels. The endpoints support retrieving and updating model availability ...

Work IQ adds a retrieve tool for workplace data. Results include citations, source metadata and grounding content. Retrieval respects existing user access permissions. Microsoft has introduced a Work ...

A new comparison explains operational statistics, query plans and troubleshooting tools for teams considering SQL migration.

New Agent Host functionality lets developers direct agents running on their own machines through GitHub Mobile, while maintaining sessions across VS Code windows and custom clients.

Microsoft's latest vcpkg summary covers a new compression-level option, cache fixes and registry updates including Boost 1.92.

The post explains that grounding connects extracted data to supporting document evidence, while confidence scores estimate the likelihood that specific extracted fields are correct. Applications can ...

NativeAOT command handling and the MSBuild server are now enabled by default. Preview 7 adds new runtime-async, C#, Blazor, MAUI and library capabilities. The .NET 11 Preview 7 SDK is version 11.0.100 ...