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Hands On with VS Code 1.112's New Image Analysis for Agents Functionality matters because agentic AI needs to understand screenshots, charts, and interfaces -- not just text 🖼️ That makes this a practical step toward real-world developer workflows 📊 visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Visual Studio Code 1.112 Adds Integrated Browser Debugging, More Copilot CLI Control 🚀 Copilot CLI auto-approves tools, auto-responds, keeps going until task is done🤖MCP server sandboxing🔒, in-editor browser debugging, monorepo agent customizations. visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Random Forest Regression Using C# Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end example of random forest regression to predict a single numeric value, implemented using C#. visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Going Local (& a Bit Loco) with Open-Source AI in VS Code Tried running open-source AI locally in VS Code on a weak company PC.💻 It worked. Sort of.😅 Ollama + Qwen2.5 got me there, but the gap between "it runs" & "it replaces Claude" was... HUGE. 🐢 visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Quadratic regression extends linear models with non-linear terms and interactions, and can be built from scratch in C# using SGD, as Dr. James McCaffrey demonstrates. Explore quadratic regression in practice 👇 #MachineLearning #AI visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

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Microsoft Launches Azure Skills Plugin to Give AI Coding Agents Real Azure Expertise One install bundles skills + MCP servers so AI coding agents 🤖 can do real Azure ☁️ work -- not just write code. GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and more. 🚀 visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Hands On with VS Code 1.111 Autopilot (Preview) for AI Prompts VS Code 1.111 Autopilot: Bypass removed prompts, but still stalled at one point, waiting for guidance. Autopilot kept going. 🤖 visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

VS Code 1.111 Debuts Weekly Stable Cadence, Expands Agent Controls First weekly Stable release. 📄 Packed with agent controls,🛠️ including Autopilot preview, agent-scoped hooks preview, and new debug-event snapshots for troubleshooting AI sessions. 🤖 visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Hands On: Building an MCP Server with VS Code AI Toolkit's New Tool Catalog New feature can scaffold an MCP server fast, but the smoother path in practice may be skipping Agent Builder & calling the tool through Copilot chat instead. I tested both. 🛠️ visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Quadratic Regression with SGD Training Using JavaScript Data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey: 🧮 Quadratic regression extends linear regression to handle complex, non-linear data with predictor interactions -- implemented from scratch in JavaScript! 💡 visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

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Microsoft Sharpens AI Toolkit for VS Code in Foundry Update AI Toolkit🧰 for VS Code gets a sharper dev focus in Microsoft's latest Foundry 🏭update: Tool Catalog, F5 agent debugging, and test-style evals.🧪 visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Happy International Women’s Day! Today we are spotlighting women whose ideas helped shape modern programming and software development. Swipe through to learn about several pioneers in the developer community. #InternationalWomensDay #WomenInTech #Programming

TypeScript 6.0 RC Bridges to Go-Based Future 🧪Install with: npm install -D typescript@rc This is the final major release on the current JS codebase before the Go-based TS 7.0. Details from the official announcement 👇 visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

WinUI Gallery 2.8 Adds Jump Lists, New Samples and Accessibility Improvements 🪟✨Adds jump list support, new AppWindow title bar & clipboard samples + accessibility fixes. Also upgrades to WASDK 1.8.5 & .NET 9. Details + changelog on the Blog & GitHub. visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Shortly After Debut, GPT-5.3-codex Dominates Microsoft Foundry AI Model Leaderboard 📊: GPT-5.3-Codex leads Quality (0.94 vs. 0.93) 🧠, but scoring across Quality/Safety/Cost/Throughput puts GPT-5-Nano on top overall 💸⚡. Safety leader: GPT-5 Pro 🛡️. visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Navigating VS Code AI Toolkit and Microsoft Foundry for Agent Development AI Toolkit vs Foundry 🧩: GitHub models share public quota 🌐; Foundry uses your Azure quota ☁️. Tool support 🛠️ is best tested after deployment ✅. visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

VS Code 1.110 Ships with Agent Plugins, Browser Tools and Session Memory VS Code 1.110 stable is out 🧰🤖 Agent plugins (preview), experimental browser tools, session memory + /compact, chat forking, and a new Agent Debug panel visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

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