GitHub Copilot’s One‑Million‑Token Context Changes How You Work with Large .NET Codebases
TL;DR GitHub Copilot now supports up to a one‑million‑token context window with configurable reasoning levels across VS Code, Visual Studio, the Copilot CLI, and the Copilot app. For .NET and Azure engineers, this is less “wow, big number” and more...
Sunday Signal: Agents Go Mainstream, Billing Gets Real, and Azure AI Grows Up
TL;DR This week’s AI news for .NET and Azure engineers is less about shiny demos and more about shipping responsibly: agent frameworks hit GA, Copilot moves fully to usage-based billing, and Azure/Microsoft Foundry doubles down on observability and ROI. If...
Hosted Agents in Azure AI Foundry Are Almost GA—and That Changes How You Ship AI on .NET
TL;DR: Microsoft is pushing Azure AI Foundry’s Hosted Agents toward General Availability (targeted for late June 2026), wrapping infrastructure, scaling, identity, and observability into a managed runtime. For .NET engineers building agentic apps, this means fewer YAML-induced headaches and a...
Copilot SDK Hits GA — Embedding GitHub’s Agent Brain into Your .NET Tools
TL;DR GitHub Copilot’s SDK is now generally available (GA) as of June 2, 2026, letting you embed Copilot’s agentic capabilities directly into your own developer tools and services. For .NET and Azure engineers, this unlocks first‑class, supported APIs for building...
GitHub Copilot Sandboxes Enter Public Preview — Why .NET and Azure Teams Should Care
TL;DR: GitHub Copilot now runs code inside secure sandboxes (cloud and local) during agent-driven workflows. This reduces blast radius, enables safer automation, and changes how you should think about CI, costs, and inner-loop development—especially if you ship .NET on Azure....
Shipping AI Features on Azure in 2026 Without Setting Your Pager on Fire
TL;DR: Even when the news cycle is quiet (or search results are uncooperative), the work of shipping AI on .NET + Azure is very much not. This piece focuses on a single, practical theme that keeps showing up for teams...
GitHub Copilot’s June 1 Billing Shift: Why Your Azure + .NET Pipeline Suddenly Has a Meter
TL;DR: As of June 1, 2026, GitHub Copilot moved fully to usage‑based billing via GitHub AI Credits, and Copilot code review now also consumes GitHub Actions minutes. For .NET teams shipping on Azure, this turns Copilot from a flat “dev...
Azure AI Foundry’s Late‑May Tooling Update Tightens the Loop from Prompt to Production
TL;DR A late‑May 2026 update to Azure AI Foundry Tools quietly but materially improves how .NET and Azure teams ship language‑heavy AI features: better built‑in text analytics, smoother agent workflows, and clearer cost controls. If you’re building AI apps that...
The Week AI Got More Agentic (and a Bit More Practical) for .NET & Azure Devs
TL;DR Late May didn’t bring a single “drop everything” launch—but it did confirm a clear direction: agentic AI is moving from demos to developer-grade tooling. For .NET and Azure engineers, that means more standardized APIs, more control over models and...
Claude Opus 4.8 Lands in Azure AI Foundry—and It Changes Multi‑Model Strategy for .NET Teams
TL;DR On May 28, 2026, Microsoft made Claude Opus 4.8 available inside Azure AI Foundry, expanding Azure’s first‑party, multi‑model lineup beyond OpenAI models. For .NET and Azure engineers, this means model choice without platform hopping, cleaner abstractions via the Azure...