AI Toolkit for VS Code: The .NET Developer's Fast Track to Production Agents
AI Toolkit for VS Code: The .NET Developer’s Fast Track to Production Agents TL;DR Microsoft released major updates to the AI Toolkit for VS Code designed to streamline how you build, test, and deploy AI agents . The biggest architectural...
AI Gets Practical: What .NET and Azure Developers Need to Know This Week
AI Gets Practical: What .NET and Azure Developers Need to Know This Week TL;DR: Visual Studio 2026 shipped on January 13, 2026 , bringing AI deeply integrated into your workflow. NET 10 is the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and...
AI Toolkit for VS Code Gets a January 2026 Overhaul: What .NET Developers Need to Know
AI Toolkit for VS Code Gets a January 2026 Overhaul: What .NET Developers Need to Know TL;DR Microsoft shipped a major AI Toolkit update for VS Code designed to streamline building, testing, and deploying AI agents, with focus on GitHub...
GPT-5.2 Lands in Azure Government: What .NET Developers Need to Know
GPT-5.2 Lands in Azure Government: What .NET Developers Need to Know TL;DR GPT-5.2, Azure OpenAI’s newest frontier reasoning model, is available in Microsoft Azure for U.S. Government Secret and Top Secret cloud environments. If you’re shipping regulated workloads on .NET...
Azure OpenAI's Realtime API with WebRTC: Building Low-Latency Voice Agents in .NET
Azure OpenAI’s Realtime API with WebRTC: Building Low-Latency Voice Agents in .NET TL;DR OpenAI’s GPT RealTime and Audio models are now generally available on Azure AI Foundry, with WebRTC support enabling real-time audio streaming and low-latency interactions . This means...
OpenAI's Assistants API Deprecation: What .NET & Azure Developers Need to Know
OpenAI’s Assistants API Deprecation: What .NET & Azure Developers Need to Know TL;DR: OpenAI has announced that its Assistants API will be deprecated on August 26, 2026. If you’re building agents on OpenAI’s platform directly, you’ll need to migrate to...
Microsoft Acquires Osmos to Bring Agentic Data Engineering to Azure Fabric
Microsoft Acquires Osmos to Bring Agentic Data Engineering to Azure Fabric TL;DR: Microsoft acquired Osmos, an agentic AI data engineering platform , and will integrate it into Azure Fabric. For .NET and Azure developers, this means AI agents will soon...
GPT-5.2 in Azure: Agentic Code Generation Cuts Iteration Cycles for .NET Developers
GPT-5.2 in Azure: Agentic Code Generation Cuts Iteration Cycles for .NET Developers TL;DR OpenAI released GPT-5.2, its most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work , and it introduces deeper logical chains, richer context handling, and agentic execution that...
The Pragmatic AI Shift: What .NET and Azure Developers Need to Know This Week
The Pragmatic AI Shift: What .NET and Azure Developers Need to Know This Week TL;DR: 2026 is the year AI moves from hype to pragmatism, shifting away from building ever-larger language models toward making AI usable . Fine-tuned smaller language...
Type Safety Is Now Your AI Safety Net
Type Safety Is Now Your AI Safety Net TL;DR AI is settling the “typed vs. untyped” debate by turning type systems into the safety net for code you didn’t write yourself. For .NET developers, this timing is perfect: .NET 10...