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Today, we’re excited to share our public roadmap, which outlines the next steps in evolving Visual Studio with AI-powered agentic experiences. With every month, we aim to deliver smarter, faster, and more intuitive tools that enhance your coding experience. Disclaimer: The items...

A Visual Studio extension that helps developers visualize and analyze Entity Framework Core query execution plans directly within their development environment.

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In previous versions of the Semantic Kernel, the encoding of template arguments was performed automatically if the argument type was a string. The encoding was not applied for custom types, anonymous types, or collections. With the latest changes, we've introduced stricter rules: if...

In previous versions of the Semantic Kernel Python, the default fallback authentication mechanism for Azure services like AzureChatCompletion was DefaultAzureCredential from the Azure Identity library. This provided a convenient way to authenticate without explicitly passing credentials,...

The August 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) is now available, and it’s all about helping developers stay focused, productive, and in control. Whether you're building games, tuning performance, or exploring AI, this release brings meaningful improvements that make everyday...

We’re back with another Terminal release for you! This development cycle, we focused on overall quality of life improvements and bug fixes. We are also updating Windows Terminal stable to version 1.23, which will include all of the features from this previous blog post. Some notable...

Sharing a single tracking pointer among all instances.

Today, we're thrilled to announce a major update to the DocumentDB for VS Code extension that will make life easier for enterprise developers. With version 0.3, you can now connect to your Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) clusters using Microsoft Entra ID authentication.  For many...