This hands-on PoC shows how I got an open-source model running locally in Visual Studio Code, where the setup worked, where it broke down, and what to watch out for if you want to apply a local model ...

Microsoft's new Azure Skills Plugin bundles curated Azure skills, the Azure MCP Server, and the Foundry MCP Server into a single install that gives AI coding agents both the expertise and execution ...

Quadratic regression is a classical machine learning technique to predict a single numeric value. Quadratic regression is an extension of basic linear regression. Quadratic regression can deal with ...

Understand the key advantages of Razor Pages in ASP.NET Core for building real-world web applications Learn how features like dependency injection, configuration, and environment awareness improve ...

TypeScript 6.0 RC represents the final major release built on the current JavaScript-based compiler. The upcoming TypeScript 7.0 will use a Go-based native implementation for enhanced speed and memory ...

Microsoft updates its reference WinUI 3 sample app with taskbar integration, clipboard samples, and quality-of-life fixes.

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

GPT-5.3-Codex moved to No. 1 in Quality on the Microsoft Foundry AI Model Leaderboard soon after release, while a cross-metric 'podium' scoring method put GPT-5-Nano on top overall for efficiency.

VS Code 1.111 Autopilot is not just a no-prompts mode. In testing, it handled a blocking question that still stopped Bypass.

Microsoft's February 2026 Foundry update includes broader platform changes, but the most immediate developer-facing news for VS Code users is an AI Toolkit refresh centered on tool discovery, agent ...

Microsoft introduces agent technology to Visual Studio, featuring curated assistants and personalized agent creation tools.

The Data Science Lab Wasserstein Distance Using C# and Python Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to compute the Wasserstein distance and explains why it is often preferable to ...