If you just want to get going with a code-first database, you don't even need to define a connection string -- just write your objects. After you install Entity Framework in your application, if you ...

Microsoft says AI is spreading across the development workflow, but developers remain focused on IDE fundamentals and .NET modernization.

SQL Server 2025 adds long-requested developer capabilities including regular expressions, fuzzy string matching and major enhancements for working with JSON. Change Event Streaming lets applications ...

Multi-agent orchestration makes workflow more inspectable, with clear handoffs and a QA backstop. Breaking the work into discrete steps makes the output easier to audit and fix. A timestamped handoff ...

GitHub Copilot has moved far beyond autocomplete, showing up across the CLI, mobile, GitHub.com, editors, CI pipelines and developer-built apps. Developers can customize Copilot with agents, hooks, ...

Back in 2017, the VS Code dev team wasn't interested in providing an integrated browser, but I was. My, how times have changed. I road-tested latest tech to see if it could replace my aging extension ...

Amber Vanderburg previews her Visual Studio Live! Orlando session on using AI to improve leadership communication, decision-making and team adoption without handing over the human judgment that ...

The latest release of the .NET-centric Uno Platform Studio adds isolated UI previews, reusable XAML snippets, more targeted AI prompting and a new default design system, extending the browser-based ...

Agent Merge, multi-root sessions and new agent-session organization extend VS Code's AI tooling beyond code generation and into pull request completion, orchestration and review.

IComparable and IComparer sound the same and work in similar ways, but there are important differences you need to know. A common and relatively simple coding task in C# is to sort an array or List ...

Good documentation is important for any application, and it starts with documenting your code. It helps you and it helps your users. It's no secret that I believe documentation is a crucial element of ...

VS Code 1.120 brings the Agents window to Stable preview. The new window opens from a title-bar button. Agent customizations include Agents, Skills, Instructions, Hooks, MCP Servers and Plugins. It ...