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Spring AI 2.0 advances the Java framework for generative AI apps with a Spring Boot 4 baseline, cleaner agentic tooling, Model Context Protocol support and vendor-backed integrations including Azure Cosmos DB.
06/29/2026
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Q&A
Microsoft's Dan Wahlin previews his introductory "Kubernetes for Developers" session at Visual Studio Live! San Diego 2026, explaining how developers can get past the Kubernetes learning curve by starting locally, mastering Pods first, and using Services to make containerized applications reliably accessible.
06/25/2026
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News
Visual Studio Code 1.126 adds session-level Copilot cost information, continuing Microsoft's recent focus on helping developers monitor and manage usage-based GitHub Copilot billing.
06/24/2026
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Eclipse Open VSX has reached 1.0.0, highlighting its role as a vendor-neutral registry for VS Code-compatible extensions.
06/24/2026
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Infragistics Ultimate 26.1 introduces the Ignite UI Enterprise MCP toolchain for AI-assisted app development across Angular, React, Web Components and Blazor.
06/23/2026
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VS Code 1.125 adds in-editor visibility into additional Copilot budget usage as GitHub's AI-credit billing model continues to draw developer scrutiny.
06/22/2026
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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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News
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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In-Depth
After being gobsmacked by the new billing plan using almost all my monthly credits in one or two days, I tried pushing some Copilot-style coding work onto local models in VS Code. What I found was less "free AI" and more "pick your pain": cloud charges on one side, heavy local resource use and long waits on the other.
06/15/2026
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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 June 2026 VS Code update turns on Autopilot by default and adds background sending for agent sessions.
06/11/2026
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Q&A
ZioNet founder Alon Fliess previews his Visual Studio Live! San Diego session on building true agentic systems in .NET -- covering the cognitive loop, MCP tool integration, multi-agent orchestration and enterprise hosting and governance with the Microsoft Agent Framework.
06/11/2026
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Q&A
Two Microsoft experts explain how GitHub Copilot is evolving from a coding assistant into a broader platform for building, customizing and testing AI-powered developer workflows.
06/09/2026
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News
Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.123 on June 3, adding agent-focused features, larger model context support, integrated browser updates and a new delay for some automatic extension updates.
06/04/2026
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In-Depth
Developer complaints about GitHub Copilot's new usage-based billing model have centered on unexpectedly rapid AI credit consumption, and neither GitHub nor Microsoft has responded directly to the backlash, though they have previously published guidance to lessen model usage costs.
06/04/2026
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In-Depth
GitHub's brand-new Copilot desktop app, in technical preview, handled a small Blazor issue from planning through pull request creation, but the hands-on test also showed why developers still need to verify agent work in the running app before merging.
06/03/2026
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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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In-Depth
A journalist using GitHub Copilot Pro details how a broken editorial workflow on day one of usage-based billing led to runaway token consumption, a projected $180 monthly bill, and practical tactics for cutting AI credit burn.
06/02/2026
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The Data Science Lab
AdaBoost.R2 regression works by building an ensemble of decision trees, training them on reweighted data, and combining their predictions with a weighted median, while also showing how parameter choices affect accuracy and overfitting.
06/01/2026
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Microsoft's May 2026 VS Code update makes BYOK usable in restricted environments while adding agent, browser and issue-reporting updates.
05/29/2026
