[Editor's note: Peter rewrote this article after a reader pointed out he over-engineered his original solution. ("What can I say: The code worked -- I just didn't need nearly as much code as I thought ...

Microsoft Product Manager Mike Kistler previews his Visual Studio Live! session on how MCP servers give .NET developers a universal standard for connecting AI models to external data and tools -- and ...

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, prompting user concerns about predictability, model access, monthly credit limits and whether unchanged plan prices will translate into ...

Just two days after GitHub announced usage-based billing for Copilot, Microsoft shipped VS Code 1.118 -- under its new weekly release cadence -- with significant token efficiency improvements designed ...

With Microsoft Build 2024 kicking off next week, Microsoft developers have been sharing sessions they're most excited to see. As we noted earlier, AI-powered Copilot coding assistants will be front ...

Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions ...

ASP.NET Core lets you bundle up business functionality along with its related UI into a view component that you can reuse in throughout your application. In this column, I'm going to take a look at ...

If users enter an invalid URL, then ASP.NET MVC will handle the problem by issuing a generic HTTP error. Here's how to give users more support (plus some advice on ...

The April update suppresses Copilot completions while IntelliSense is active, addressing a long-running editor conflict.

In .NET 10 Preview 7, Microsoft has introduced two key features aimed at improving developer productivity and performance. The new XAML Source Generator for .NET MAUI generates XAML code at compile ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub pioneered the AI coding assistant space in 2021 with the introduction of Copilot, based on a large language model (LLM) called Codex derived from OpenAI's GPT-3, and a new Magic ...

In this year's big Stack Overflow developer survey things are much the same for Microsoft-centric data points: VS Code and Visual Studio still rule the IDE roost, while .NET maintains its No. 1 ...