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Wednesday September 3rd

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Let Copilot Coding Agent handle the busy work - .NET Blog

See how GitHub Copilot Coding Agent automates unit tests and ships features from a PRD in a real .NET sample, so you can...

Tuesday September 2nd

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Using and authoring .NET tools

In this post I describe some of the complexities around authoring .NET tools, specifically around supporting multiple .N...

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Boost Your Copilot Collaboration with Reusable Prompt Files - Visual Studio Blog

Discover how Visual Studio 2022's reusable prompt files for Copilot Ask and Agent mode make prompt writing faster, easie...

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Boost Your Copilot Collaboration with Reusable Prompt Files - Visual Studio Blog

Discover how Visual Studio 2022's reusable prompt files for Copilot Ask and Agent mode make prompt writing faster, easie...

Sunday August 31st

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Mads K (Microsoft) on Visual Studio and VSCode

Mads K of Microsoft talks about the targeting of Visual Studio and VSCode. Towards the end, I ask him about a few of his...

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Faster & More Reliable Integration Testing Against Marten Projections or Subscriptions

I just pulled the trigger on Marten 8.8 and Wolverine 4.10 earlier today. Neither is particularly large, but there's som...

Saturday August 30th

107 views

F# Weekly #35, 2025 - AI agents can write F#!

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Getting Started with the Aspire CLI - .NET Blog ...

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F# Weekly #35, 2025 - AI agents can write F#!

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Getting Started with the Aspire CLI - .NET Blog ...

Thursday August 28th

162 views

Getting Started with the Aspire CLI - .NET Blog

The Aspire CLI is here and you can use it to configure and run your applications

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The Easiest Way to Do OpenTelemetry in .NET: OTLP + Collector

Decouple your observability configuration from your application code with OTLP and collectors

Wednesday August 27th

167 views

Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio (September) - Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio's AI roadmap: new agent tools, Copilot Chat upgrades, MCP support, and latest models like Claude Opus 4.1 ...

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Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio (September) - Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio's AI roadmap: new agent tools, Copilot Chat upgrades, MCP support, and latest models like Claude Opus 4.1 ...

162 views

EFCore.Visualizer - View Entity Framework Core query plan inside Visual Studio - .NET Blog

A Visual Studio extension that helps developers visualize and analyze Entity Framework Core query execution plans direct...

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EFCore.Visualizer - View Entity Framework Core query plan inside Visual Studio - .NET Blog

A Visual Studio extension that helps developers visualize and analyze Entity Framework Core query execution plans direct...

Tuesday August 26th

232 views

The Visual Studio August Update is here - smarter AI, better debugging, and more control - Visual Studio Blog

The Visual Studio 2022 August 2025 update (v17.14) adds GPT-5, MCP support, smarter Copilot Chat, Unreal debugging, and ...

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Fixing an old .NET Core native library loading issue on Alpine

In this post I walk through the process of solving a native library loading issue on alpine with an old .NET runtime, sh...

Monday August 25th

185 views

2025 Summer Vacation

The boys and I went to Maryland for the first half of August to visit family and check out some roller coasters. They hi...

155 views

MauiReactor: An MVU Approach for .NET MAUI - .NET Blog

A look at how the Model-View-Update pattern can complement the .NET MAUI ecosystem

155 views

F# Weekly #34, 2025 - FsiX: new F# REPL with hot reloading

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Enhance your CLI testing workflow with the new d...

133 views

MauiReactor: An MVU Approach for .NET MAUI - .NET Blog

A look at how the Model-View-Update pattern can complement the .NET MAUI ecosystem

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MauiReactor: An MVU Approach for .NET MAUI - .NET Blog

A look at how the Model-View-Update pattern can complement the .NET MAUI ecosystem

Saturday August 23rd

282 views

Accelerating SQL Server 2025 momentum: Announcing the first release candidate - Microsoft SQL Server Blog

We are moving toward general availability of SQL Server 2025 and focusing on delivering enhanced stability, performance,...

Thursday August 21st

268 views

Better Control over Your Copilot Code Suggestions - Visual Studio Blog

enhanced control over your Copilot experience, so you can decide when suggestions show up and how much you accept, right...

235 views

Why Separate Databases? Explaining Like You're Five

I want to give you three different examples and reasons why you might want to separate customers and orders into differe...

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Enhance your CLI testing workflow with the new dotnet test - .NET Blog

Learn how .NET 10 transforms dotnet test with native Microsoft.Testing.Platform integration, delivering better performan...

Wednesday August 20th

232 views

Tuesday August 19th

324 views

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is Now Generally Available in Visual Studio 🎉 - Visual Studio Blog

We're excited to announce that MCP support is now GA in Visual Studio-unlocking richer, real-time context from your enti...