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Low-Coding in the Age of AI: Dataverse Embraces Copilot, Claude and Cursor 🧑‍💻 The open-source plugin now supports those agents, routing requests across MCP, SDK & CLI tools. Microsoft also expanded MCP tooling, certification and governance controls. 🔧 visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Visual Studio Takes Aim at Copilot Billing Shock 💸 June's update adds real-time usage tracking, 🛠️ configurable quota alerts, MCP server trust validation, C++ modernization GA and smarter AI 🤖editing. 📊 #VisualStudio #AI #dotnet visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

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Claude AI Gets Yet Another Boost in VS Code 1.128 VS Code 1.128 is out today 🧑‍💻 It adds multi-chat Claude agent sessions, Copilot Vision GA for images/PDFs, OS-level shortcuts, browser-tab placement controls and enterprise OpenTelemetry settings 🔎⚙️ visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

TypeScript 7 Arrives to Rock VS Code with Go-Powered Speed 🚀 The VS Code angle is huge: Microsoft says the vscode build went from 125.7s to 10.6s, and the VS Code team says editor project load dropped from nearly a minute to about 10s ⚡🧰 visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Full-Stack with a Side of Copilot: Building and Deploying an App the AI-Accelerated Way GitHub Copilot is more than autocomplete -- it's a full-stack accelerator. Tests, CI/CD, infra templates, deployment scripts -- that's where the real gains are. visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

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VS Code 1.127 Further Integrates Advanced Browser-AI Tech It keeps pushing the editor’s integrated browser deeper into AI-assisted development 🤖Browser tools for agents are now GA, helping AI inspect, interact with & verify web apps inside VS Code ⚙️ visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Support Vector Regression with SGD Training Using C# Support vector regression can still be trained from scratch. James McCaffrey shows kernel SVR with SGD/SSGD training in C#, including RBF kernels, support vectors and metrics. visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

GitHub Limits Issue Creation to Collaborators Only GitHub is extending maintainer controls from PRs to issues 🔒 After framing PR limits as a way to cut low-quality noise AI & more,⚙️ GitHub now lets repos restrict issue creation to collaborators🧑‍💻 visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Uno Platform Helps Ship First Stable SkiaSharp 4.0 Release for 2D .NET Graphics 🎨 It updates the Skia engine to m148, cleans up legacy APIs, adds variable font and much more🤝 visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Spring AI 2.0 Goes GA, Giving Java Developers a More Mature AI App Stack Spring AI 2.0 GA 🌱🤖gives Java devs a more mature Spring-native stack for building AI apps with agents, RAG, vector search, memory & MCP -- without leaving Spring Boot ecosystem. visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Kubernetes for Developers Kubernetes isn't just for the cloud team anymore 🐳 @DanWahlin breaks down how devs can get started -- locally, practically, confidently ☸️ Pods, Deployments, Services and more at #VSLive San Diego 2026 👇 visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

VS Code Keeps Eye on Costs in v1.126 Update Latest weekly update adds another Copilot cost-management feature 💸 to allay usage-based billing surprises. visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Open VSX 1.0.0 Puts Focus on Open Extension Registry for VS Code Ecosystem 🧩 Eclipse is positioning it as open, vendor-neutral infrastructure for VS Code-compatible extensions across IDEs, cloud dev tools and AI coding environments 🚀 visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Infragistics Puts MCP Toolchain at Center of Ultimate 26.1 Infragistics:🧰 The new Ignite UI Enterprise MCP toolchain links coding assistants to Ignite UI components, docs, APIs and theming across Angular, React, Web Components and Blazor 🤖 visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

VS Code 1.125 Adds Copilot Spend Meter After Billing Shock A Copilot dashboard signals for additional-spend budget usage 💸 It lands after GitHub's June 1 AI-credit billing switch & follows earlier work on token efficiency, reports & usage monitoring 🔎 visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

TypeScript 7.0 RC Moves Microsoft's Go Rewrite Into the Mainline Compiler TypeScript 7.0 RC is the Go rewrite moving into the regular typescript package 🚀 The compiler uses tsc now, but API-dependent tooling still has a TypeScript 7.1 wait ahead. visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…

Microsoft Highlights Visual Studio Live! Event Lineup and Longtime Developer Community Role -- Visual Studio Magazine visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2026/…