Ahead of his Visual Studio Live! session, Marcel de Vries explains how .NET teams can expose useful application capabilities to AI agents, starting with focused, read-only tools and user-specific ...

VS Code's AI Toolkit Agent Builder can wire an agent to external tools via MCP, even for non-coding editorial workflows. Early friction points included circular UX flows, model availability mismatches ...

Microsoft's September roundup highlights model choice, Copilot-assisted package fixes, pull request exploration and new debugging features.

Seven social media posts preview changes spanning Markdown image handling, merge conflicts, keyboard shortcuts, testing and AI chat.

GitHub Copilot adds model choices alongside optional sandboxing and enterprise monitoring, as reports of unauthorized agent actions intensify debate over AI safeguards.

Experimental multi-folder sessions let individual chats work in separate repositories or worktrees. Remote delegation can match tasks to connected hosts by operating system and available resources.

Random forest regression is a tree-based machine learning technique to predict a single numeric value. A random forest is a collection (ensemble) of simple regression decision trees that are trained ...

Microsoft now ships Azure MCP tools as part of the Azure development workload in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14.30 or higher. Other MCP-related items that later appeared in the Visual Studio 2022 17 ...

VS Code 1.137 adds Preview Automations for recurring agent tasks on schedules. Experimental Voice Mode supports spoken agent conversations with interruption and session awareness. Experimental GitHub ...

Researchers analyzing GitHub Copilot telemetry found that about 87 percent of LLM calls were agent-initiated after a developer began a turn. LLM calls and tool invocations occurred at nearly a 1:1 ...

Microsoft's .NET 11-era overhaul adds project caching, Native AOT, faster builds and richer project-file tooling.