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Agent mode has arrived in preview for Visual Studio

Plan, build, test, and fix — all from one prompt. Agent mode is now available in public preview for all users in Visual Studio 17.14. Agent mode in Visual Studio allows you to define tasks using natural language, with Copilot autonomously planning, editing your codebase, invoking...
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What’s New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.14

Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14 is now generally available! This post summarizes the new features you can find in this release for C++. You can download Visual Studio 2022 from the Visual Studio downloads page or upgrade your existing installation by following the Update Visual Studio...
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May 16, 2025
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Semantic Kernel: Package previews, Graduations & Deprecations

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Sergey
Semantic Kernel: Package Previews, Graduations & Deprecations We are excited to share a summary of recent updates and continuous clean-up efforts across the Semantic Kernel .NET codebase. These changes focus on improving maintainability, aligning with the latest APIs, and ensuring a...
Semantic Kernel
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May 15, 2025
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Celebrating 50 Million Developers: The Journey of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code

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Amanda Silver
Today, I'm thrilled to share that we've hit an incredible milestone together: 50 million developers are actively using Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code each month. That's 50 million of you writing code, debugging late into the night, collaborating on projects, and building the...
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May 15, 2025
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Evaluating content safety in your .NET AI applications

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Shyam Namboodiripad
Announcing content safety evaluations and other imporvements in the Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation libraries.
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May 15, 2025
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How do I force RunOnce commands to run in a specific order?

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Raymond Chen
Run them in the desired order yourself.
The Old New Thing
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May 15, 2025
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Cloud infrastructure provisioning: best practices for IaC

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Hannes,
Brent
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) is a common DevOps practice that enterprises use to provision and deploy IT infrastructure. Enterprises applying IaC and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines can maintain high availability and manage risk for their cloud environments at scale. However, multi-environment challenges, manual processes, and fragmented guidance still lead to configuration drift, errors, and inconsistencies. These issues are likely to result in downtime, security vulnerabilities, and inefficient resource utilization.
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May 14, 2025
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If I mark my thread pool callback as long-running, does it still count toward the thread pool thread limit?

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Raymond Chen
Yes, because it's still in the thread pool.
The Old New Thing
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May 13, 2025
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Accelerate AI Applications with Semantic Caching on Azure Managed Redis

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Satish
In this blog, we will look at implementing the Semantic caching use case using Azure Managed Redis. Azure has been at the forefront of providing caching solutions for over a decade with the Azure Cache for Redis enterprise. This service empowered developers with a high-performance,...
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May 13, 2025
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Eclipse + GitHub Copilot = Lightspeed SAP ABAP Development

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Amit Lal
Introduction  Did you catch the GitHub's recent announcement of ABAP support in GitHub Copilot for Eclipse? It is a significant step forward for SAP developers. This integration brings AI-powered code suggestions and chat functionalities directly into the Eclipse IDE, potentially...
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May 13, 2025
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What’s New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.14

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Sy Brand
Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14 is now generally available! This post summarizes the new features you can find in this release for C++. You can download Visual Studio 2022 from the Visual Studio downloads page or upgrade your existing installation by following the Update Visual Studio...
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