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C# expert Mark Michaelis explores what .NET developers still need to learn for themselves as AI takes on more coding work, highlighting DevOps, testing, technical debt and the engineering discipline ...

The MSVC Build Tools Preview is updated regularly with the latest features and fixes from the MSVC (Microsoft C++) development team. The MSVC team’s updates for August 2026, targeting the Visual ...

New controls for model reasoning and Copilot code-review depth let developers decide how much AI effort a task warrants, with speed, depth and credit consumption all part of the tradeoff.

This should be the final preview release of .NET 11 before we get release candidates and a final release in November.

Microsoft releases .NET 11 Preview 7 with MSBuild server, NativeAOT changes, new C# features, and improvements across ASP.NET Core.