Copilot Engineering with Azure/GitHub, VS Code Copilot Gets Tab, Tab, Tab Coding, More

February 13, 2025

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Copilot Engineering in the Cloud with Azure and GitHub

Who better to lead a full-day deep dive into this tech than two experts from GitHub, which introduced the original "AI pair programmer" and spawned the ubiquitous Copilot moniker?

■	Useful New-ish Features in .NET/C#
■	Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database
■	Building Blazor Applications
■	The Science Behind User Interface Design

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VS Code Copilot Gets Closer to Tab, Tab, Tab Coding

Microsoft is previewing new AI tech that predicts next edits, allowing devs to just Tab to accept them and keep on going.

■	AI Toolkit for VS Code Now Lets You 'Bring Your Own Model'
■	Visual Studio Copilot Improves Feature Search, Shortcuts, Slash Commands
■	Copilot Agentic AI Dev Environment Opens Up to All
■	Top 10 GitHub Copilot Extensions, Led by Docker and PerplexityAI

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GitHub Previews Agentic AI in VS Code Copilot

GitHub announced a raft of improvements to its Copilot AI in the Visual Studio Code editor, including a new "agent mode" in preview that lets developers use the AI technology to write code faster and more accurately.

■	As Some Orgs Restrict DeepSeek AI Usage, Microsoft Offers Models and Dev Guidance
■	Microsoft Duels JetBrains with Same-Day AI Coding Moves
■	Microsoft Revamps Fledgling AutoGen Framework for Agentic AI
■	AI-Powered Trae IDE Ships from Chinese TikTok Owner: 'It Looks To Be a Fork'

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Uno Platform Wants Microsoft to Improve .NET WebAssembly in Two Ways

Uno Platform, a third-party dev tooling specialist that caters to .NET developers, published a report on the state of WebAssembly, addressing some shortcomings in the .NET implementation it would like to see Microsoft address.

■	Compare New GitHub Copilot Free Plan for Visual Studio/VS Code to Paid Plans
■	TypeScript Tops New JetBrains 'Language Promise Index'
■	OpenSilver 3.1 Unveils Drag-and-Drop XAML Designer for VS Code
■	On Blazor Component Reusability - From Day 0

Random Neighborhoods Regression Using C#

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the random neighborhoods regression technique, where the goal is to predict a single numeric value. Compared to other ML regression techniques, advantages are that it can handle both large and small datasets, and the results are highly interpretable.

■	Gradient Boosting Regression Using C#
■	Random Forest Regression and Bagging Regression Using C#
■	AdaBoost Regression Using C#
■	Decision Tree Regression from Scratch Using C#

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