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Visual Studio Insiders

September 10, 2025
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With the launch of Visual Studio 2026 Insiders, our team is embracing the reality of a rapidly evolving developer ...

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Prioritizing your backlog

September 05, 2025
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The Product Managers I attempt to emulate aren't just juggling timelines and features, they are constantly finding ...

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MCP server integration in Visual Studio

July 21, 2025
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I’ve been tinkering with MCP server support in Visual Studio recently, and the latest improvements have helped a bunch. ...

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When LLMs Remember Instead of Reason

July 17, 2025
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SWE-Bench Verification asserts to be ahigh-quality, human-validated subset of the SWE-Bench benchmark designed to ...

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Solving for the last mile

June 05, 2025
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Paul Ford on the The Extremely Human Last Mile: I think the answer is actually really simple, and it’s something I keep ...

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Updates from BUILD 2025

May 24, 2025
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For me, this year's BUILD was all about sharing a vision for how the end-to-end developer experience will evolve in the ...

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A Kind of Blue

May 17, 2025
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I mostly run the 17.x preview version of Visual Studio which means I have also being using the earliest release of ...

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If LLMs Can Code, Why Are We Building More IDEs?

April 18, 2025
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One of the biggest debates in software development today is whether large language models (LLMs) will eventually make ...

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Happy Birthday

April 05, 2025
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This year, Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary, a milestone that feels personal to me. It’s not just a ...

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