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Dellenny presents a step-by-step beginner’s guide to building intelligent solutions with machine learning in Azure, offering a practical introduction to ML tools and workflows for aspiring professionals.

junjieli explains how the AI Toolkit v0.18.3 for VS Code brings full support for GPT-5 and GPT OSS models, providing developers with powerful AI integration and deployment features across Azure and local environments.

Dellenny explores how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) revolutionizes AI integrations and demonstrates Microsoft Azure’s leading role in secure, scalable MCP adoption for enterprise AI workflows.

In this video, Daniel Roth and Maddy Montaquila guide ASP.NET Core developers through Aspire, covering its benefits, practical integration, and real-world tips, as shared on AspiriFridays.

In this video, the .NET team, including Jon Galloway and others, present the latest validation improvements for Blazor in .NET 10, highlighting support for complex types and how developers can leverage these features.

ShirleyseHaley announces a new Microsoft Security Virtual Training Day designed to help professionals build expertise in cloud security using Microsoft Defender for Cloud, with practical sessions on DevOps integration and workload protection.

Alan Shimel examines the current state of AI in the DevOps world, analyzing business hype, empirical studies, and ground-level developer experiences.

Allison shares details on the removal of the Dependabot reviewers configuration on GitHub, explaining how users can transition to using code owners for repository management.

JulieSirrine shares a curated summary of activities from Microsoft Learning Rooms, spotlighting hands-on community events and technical discussions covering Azure, AI, Fabric, Power BI, cloud security, and coding topics for Microsoft professionals.

Author juliayin presents an overview of the new Connectivity Analysis (Preview) tool for Azure Kubernetes Service, explaining how it simplifies network troubleshooting for AKS outbound connections.

GitHub shares The Pragmatic Engineer’s survey results showing GitHub Copilot overtaking ChatGPT as the leading AI tool for developers, cementing its role in modern software development.

daisami presents a practical guide on securing pro-code custom engine agent endpoints for Microsoft 365 Copilot, detailing application-level controls, code samples, and Azure integration strategies.

Allison provides an overview of upcoming changes to the GitHub Events API, detailing improvements in performance and recommendations for developers who rely on this API.

Allison explains recent changes to GitHub’s pre-release license terms, highlighting added indemnity and changes to liability for enterprise volume licensing customers.

Melissa Pastore walks through hands-on methods for using GitHub Copilot to streamline code reviews and pull requests, offering actionable workflow tips and Copilot prompt examples based on her engineering experience at GitHub.

Delicious_Jaguar_341 shares a thoughtful discussion about advanced async/await usage in .NET, examining performance problems caused by the sync-over-async pattern and providing actionable tips for developers.

BusyCode shares insights into using GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio, noting its challenges with modifying code and offering strategies for better results with AI code assistance.

Harry-Cheng shares insights from his internship on the Azure AI Foundry team, presenting a hands-on look at building the ‘model operation agent.’ This post highlights how conversational AI is used to tackle enterprise model management challenges.

jeddthedoge initiates a thoughtful discussion on the complexities of starting a .NET project, with community members providing nuanced perspectives on why .NET emphasizes structure through DTOs, layers, and frameworks like Entity Framework.

Vectorial1024 provides a well-rounded technical discussion on the performance differences between JIT and AOT compilation for ASP.NET Core, supported by benchmark data and insights into .NET’s compilation strategies.

wfgy_engine presents the Semantic Clinic, an MIT-licensed, math-first guide for diagnosing and repairing AI system failures, with reproducible methods and model-agnostic applicability.

In this community report, Wednesday_Inu shares practical insights from six months deploying AI agents for sales and L1 support, highlighting key technology choices, business outcomes, and guardrails for reliability.

John Savill presents the August 8, 2025 Azure Update, sharing key advancements in cloud infrastructure, security, AI, and data solutions for Microsoft Azure professionals.

tampasmix explores approaches for connecting Azure VPN P2S remote users to on-premises networks via ExpressRoute in a hub-and-spoke architecture, discussing routing, gateway setup, and practical options for solving connectivity challenges.

gullu_7278 starts a community conversation sharing personal results and frustrations with GPT-5 inside GitHub Copilot and VS Code, inviting others to reflect on speed, cost, and code quality in practical developer settings.

Luisio93’s community post explores practical steps to deploy Azure Foundry AI Agents and connect them to a Laravel front end, highlighting requirements for API integration and sharing deployment insights.

Michael Chukwube explains why Continuous Integration is now a cornerstone of DevOps, highlighting its impact on software quality, delivery speed, and team collaboration in today’s tech landscape.

TimePerfect8403 describes the challenge of migrating sprint planning to Azure DevOps, emphasizing story point forecasting over task-level estimation, and provides tips for agile, team-centric capacity management.

zigs leads a community discussion exploring the most effective helper methods and C# extension patterns, sharing useful code snippets that simplify .NET development workflows.

JeroenBooij highlights an intermittent error encountered when initializing Azure Maps Control in an Angular application. This discussion offers firsthand insights into troubleshooting and handling SDK image loading issues.

Dellenny introduces Microsoft Copilot Studio, providing a clear overview of this low-code AI development tool for beginners looking to create and deploy intelligent copilots and chatbots without deep coding expertise.

Sea-Key3106 discusses a direct comparison between GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4, O3, and O3 High models within GitHub Copilot for a challenging C# bug, highlighting each model’s effectiveness.

Sajil_ali shares their approach to developing a ‘master prompt’ for generating SEO blog posts with built-in psychological engagement, unpacking the workflow, structure, and techniques behind effective prompt engineering.

typicalyume presents ZaString, a Span-powered zero-allocation string helper for .NET, and invites detailed feedback from the developer community on its API, safety, and performance.

EfficientApartment52 shares their experience and concerns about GitHub Copilot models being limited to 128k context length, inviting other users and the Copilot team to discuss the impact and potential solutions.

BiteDowntown3294 shares actionable tips for effective Azure Application Insights logging in .NET, discussing practical configurations, resource links, and the benefits of OpenTelemetry and data sampling.

DouglasRoldan initiates a thoughtful conversation on best practices for writing maintainable and reusable C# scripts within SCADA frameworks, gathering community insights about code structuring and optimization.

nile-code raises a practical WPF/MVVM issue: design previews break when injecting the DataContext from code-behind due to dependency-injected ViewModel constructors. Community members discuss solutions and reference Microsoft documentation and StackOverflow answers.

EchoingAngel shares concerns about losing access to Gemini 2.5 Pro after a GitHub Copilot Chat update in VS Code, detailing troubleshooting steps and community responses.

daisami guides developers through securing Azure Bot Service endpoints for Microsoft Teams, focusing on application-level protections, token validation, and tenant restrictions to safeguard accessible endpoints in ASP.NET Core bots.

stclarke summarizes Microsoft’s perspective on the path toward AI-driven operational excellence in manufacturing, spotlighting advancements in grid energy and strategic partnerships.

Allison summarizes the launch of OpenAI’s GPT-5 models on GitHub Models, highlighting new features, model variants, and pathways for developers to leverage advanced AI in coding workflows.

Randy Pagels details how developers can use GitHub Copilot’s Chat, Edit, and Agent modes to catch and fix typos in code and comments, streamlining code reviews and reducing bugs.

Jazzlike_Course_9895 shares initial experiences using GPT-5 in Visual Studio Code Copilot, highlighting differences from previous AI models and discussing how GPT-5’s analytic code feedback compares to alternatives like Claude 4 and GPT-4.1.

Legitimate-School-59 shares a behind-the-scenes look at the technical and business realities for senior engineers earning over 150k, focusing on Azure migrations, large-scale codebase management, security enhancements, and more.

Allison explains how the process for downloading Copilot activity reports has been upgraded to asynchronous generation, offering improved performance and user experience for admins.

Pierce Boggan and James Montemagno, with guest Burke Holland, demonstrate the integration of GPT-5 and Copilot into Visual Studio Code, showcasing new AI-powered developer workflows.

Allison highlights the major improvements and experimental features introduced in the July 2025 GitHub Copilot for VS Code (v1.103) update, focusing on enhanced chat, agent workflows, and developer productivity tools.

Worth_Word_1314 and fellow community members discuss why GitHub Copilot GPT-5 charges for premium requests, while GPT-5 at copilot.microsoft.com is free, examining feature differences, product strategy, and user experience.

Gwen Davis outlines practical strategies for junior developers to succeed in the age of AI, focusing on leveraging GitHub Copilot, developing core coding skills, and thriving within open-source and DevOps workflows.

Allison explains GitHub’s change to make four spaces the default tab size for code and code snippets, aiming for a more consistent and developer-friendly viewing experience.

Allison introduces a GitHub platform update that surfaces contributing guidelines in the repository overview tab and sidebar, improving new contributor onboarding and repository usability.

Allison details GitHub’s new consolidated single sign-on banner experience, highlighting how it streamlines SSO notifications for organization members and improves account management.

Mike Vizard examines how ArmorCode’s Anya AI now generates automated, environment-specific code fixes and brings software supply chain insight to application security, as announced at Black Hat USA 2025.

stclarke presents Microsoft’s CLIO, an AI system enabling self-adaptive and controllable reasoning for challenging scientific problems, demonstrating sizable performance gains and enhanced transparency for researchers.

Debbie O’Brien offers an in-depth look at Playwright’s modern testing ecosystem, highlighting end-to-end workflows, AI-powered tools, and integrations with GitHub Copilot and Azure App Testing.

Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO at Microsoft, announces the rollout of GPT-5 across Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, and more, bringing advanced AI capabilities to millions of developers and enterprises.

Join Olivia McVicker and the Visual Studio Code team for a live walkthrough of new features in the July v1.103 release, including demos and Q&A for developers.

Allison reports on the launch of OpenAI’s GPT-5 model in public preview for GitHub Copilot users, detailing improved coding capabilities and how paid users and administrators can enable access.

Steve Sweetman announces the general availability of GPT-5 in Azure AI Foundry, detailing its rollout to developers via GitHub Copilot and VS Code, enhanced reasoning, orchestration features, and robust security and governance layers for enterprise AI adoption.

In this video, GitHub invites viewers to tackle AI security challenges in the Secure Code Game Season 3. Hosted by the GitHub team, it encourages ethical hacking against language models and secure code remediation.

Cristina Da Gama Henriquez announces the public preview of the Phishing Triage Agent in Microsoft Defender, highlighting its AI-powered, autonomous phishing detection capabilities for SOC teams.

Mike Vizard reports on Black Duck Software’s new integration of their AI security assistant into IDE plugins, enabling real-time vulnerability detection and support for natural language security queries as developers write code.

Dellenny shares a practical top-10 guide for new developers, outlining how GitHub Copilot can accelerate coding, improve learning, and boost confidence through AI-powered assistance.

Tom Howlett examines the enterprise-level implications of vibe coding and AI-assisted development, highlighting both the acceleration of innovation and the real risks in security and code maintainability.

Microsoft Fabric Blog guides readers through deploying Microsoft Fabric configurations with Terraform in GitHub Actions, emphasizing secure automation with managed identities and OpenID Connect for robust Azure-based CI/CD workflows.

Dellenny demonstrates how to build, test, and deploy your first bot using Microsoft Copilot Studio’s low-code environment, providing practical steps for anyone interested in conversational AI solutions.

Hosted by the dotnet team, this session features Bruno Capuano and Tal Wald as they demonstrate strategies for achieving fast, cost-effective AI inference using .NET, ONNX Runtime, and modern APIs.

Mike Vizard discusses PlayerZero’s new CodeSim feature, which uses AI to simulate and analyze code, empowering DevOps teams to proactively address challenges in AI-driven software development.

Allison announces that copilot-instructions.md support in GitHub Copilot code review is now generally available, empowering developers to customize Copilot’s review workflow directly within repositories.

Allison details how GitHub Copilot Coding Agent can automatically generate custom instructions for your repositories, allowing developers to delegate tasks and improve pull request quality using Copilot.

stclarke presents a comprehensive year-in-review of the Microsoft Bounty Program, showcasing $17 million in rewards, the impact of security research collaborations, and updates to Microsoft’s vulnerability reward initiatives.

In this post, stclarke introduces the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI) patterns and practices—a library of practical security solutions aimed at helping organizations enhance security at scale, informed by Microsoft’s operational experiences.

In this blog, Wendy Breiding presents five practical GitHub Copilot Chat prompts specifically designed to help .NET developers boost productivity, code quality, and security when working on Microsoft technologies.

Allison announces the deprecation of the GPT-4o model in Copilot Chat, outlining the move to GPT-4.1 as the new standard and explaining the impacts for developers using Copilot.

Allison discusses recent Spark updates delivered by GitHub, focusing on reliability, seed data prepopulation, performance enhancements, and user experience improvements for app developers.

Linda Li introduces the new Browser Automation Tool (Preview) in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, enabling developers to automate browser tasks via natural language using Playwright Workspaces in Azure.

Authored by Aung Oo, this blog post announces Azure Storage Discovery, a new Azure service for managing and analyzing enterprise Blob Storage. Learn about its features, Copilot integration, and user experiences.

In this resource, GitHub explains how to utilize GitHub Copilot as your first code reviewer in pull requests. The guide outlines the workflow for leveraging Copilot to streamline reviews before involving your team.

John Savill’s Technical Training explains the new Web Application Firewall (WAF) capability for Azure App Gateway for Containers, guiding viewers through configuration, policy application, and key limitations.

In this in-depth news post, author stclarke explores how Microsoft brings OpenAI’s open-weight gpt‑oss models to Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry, vastly expanding possibilities for developers and enterprises.

Dellenny explains how students and self-learners can use GitHub Copilot as an AI-powered pair programmer to accelerate coding education, highlighting its features and offering tips for effective use.

Nick Chapsas introduces Michael Staib as he demonstrates how to create GraphQL APIs in .NET using the HotChocolate library, helping developers start working with GraphQL in a Microsoft ecosystem.

GitHub hosts a relaxed coding livestream where the team continues work on a turn-based-game MCP server, demonstrating collaborative coding practices and GitHub Copilot integration.

In this insightful article, Jyostna Seelam discusses how blameless postmortems transform DevOps incidents into powerful learning and improvement opportunities, driving team resilience.

In this announcement, Satya Nadella shares Microsoft’s move to bring OpenAI’s gpt-oss models to Azure AI Foundry and to Windows via Foundry Local, highlighting hybrid AI capabilities and community engagement.

Tara Overfield and Victor Israel-Bolarinwa provide a detailed recap of the August 2025 servicing updates for .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, and the .NET Framework, focusing on new non-security fixes and resources.

Written by Mike Vizard, this article explores a Harris Poll survey revealing how AI adoption is transforming software development, boosting productivity, creating economic value, and presenting new challenges for organizations.

In this Sip and Sync with Azure episode, Priyanka Vergadia and Govind Kamtamneni demonstrate how engineers can use Microsoft’s Azure AI, GitHub Copilot, and automated agent orchestration to multiply coding productivity, shifting focus from manual coding to context engineering and software verification.

Microsoft Developer showcases how the Dapr Durable AI Agent Workflow Framework lets you create scalable, resilient, multi-agent AI systems with Dapr. Learn practical agent orchestration and production techniques.

Authored by Mike Vizard, this article explores Cycode’s new AI agent for its application security platform. The tool is designed to evaluate and prioritize vulnerabilities, helping DevSecOps teams respond more effectively to emerging security challenges.

In this comprehensive post, Andrew Lock examines the new passkey support introduced in ASP.NET Core Identity and the Blazor Web App template as part of .NET 10 preview 6, explaining both user and implementation perspectives.

Dellenny presents a practical guide to adopting immutable infrastructure on Azure, detailing the steps, best practices, and tooling for reliable cloud deployments with DevOps workflows.

In this Azure Essentials video, Microsoft Developer’s Thomas Maurer and Ben Brauer guide viewers through establishing an AI Center of Excellence, covering best practices for governance, strategy, and scalable, responsible AI adoption.

Hosted by dotnet with guest Tomohisa Takaoka, this discussion delves into developing distributed applications using Microsoft Orleans, event sourcing, and the Sekiban C# framework.

Visual Studio Code’s channel hosts Kent C. Dodds and Burke Holland for a candid conversation about the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its potential to redefine how developers interact with AI tools.

Hosted by dotnet and featuring Erik Ejlskov Jensen, this On .NET Live episode demonstrates how to boost SQL Server development using modern .NET tools, NuGet packages, and static analysis.

Authored by Alan Shimel, this article features insights from Honeycomb CEO Christine Yen on how Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers enhance AI-driven observability and the evolving landscape for DevOps teams.

In this interview, Mike Vizard talks with Cloudsmith CEO Glenn Weinstein about the pivotal role of MCP servers in enhancing AI agent situational awareness and seamless collaboration in DevOps pipelines.

Dellenny details how to implement the Secret Store Pattern in Azure, guiding developers to use Azure Key Vault for managing credentials and secrets securely in cloud-native applications.

GitHub presents a practical guide to integrating AI models within GitHub Actions workflows. In this video, GitHub shows how AI can automate changelogs, documentation, and bug reproduction, helping engineering teams run more efficiently.

John Savill’s Technical Training presents an in-depth look at group source of authority conversions between Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID, alongside updates to Microsoft Security Copilot.

Written by Dellenny, this comprehensive overview shows how Microsoft AI—including GitHub Copilot—integrates with DevOps tools to enhance productivity, automation, and secure software delivery.

In this article, Tom Smith analyzes the transformational impact of rapid AI code generation in the DevOps domain, highlighting new hardware, open-source model advancements, and the resulting effects on workflow efficiency.