Build GenAI Apps with Azure AI Foundry, Unlock Claude Sonnet 3.7 AI Model in Visual Studio, More

March 13, 2025

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Building Generative AI Applications with Azure AI Foundry

With everyone scrambling to keep abreast of the rapidly advancing GenAI space, where some new tool or tech seems to be announced every week, Azure AI Foundry has emerged as a crucial end-to-end platform in the Microsoft-centric developer space.

■	Introduction to .NET Aspire
■	Integrating AI into Your Existing Applications Using Semantic Kernel and C#
■	Copilot Engineering in the Cloud with Azure and GitHub
■	Useful New-ish Features in .NET/C#

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How to Unlock Visual Studio 2022's Preview Features Like Claude Sonnet 3.7 AI Model

Some developers complained that advanced AI models come sooner to VS Code than Visual Studio, but the new Claude Sonnet 3.7 model is now available in IDE with a paid GitHub Copilot account and a simple settings tweak in GitHub.

■	Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 Ships: 'Meet GitHub Copilot Free'
■	Visual Studio Copilot Improves Feature Search, Shortcuts, Slash Commands
■	Microsoft Duels JetBrains with Same-Day AI Coding Moves
■	IDE Irony: Coding Errors Cause 'Critical' Vulnerability in Visual Studio

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Semantic Kernel Agent Framework Graduates to Release Candidate

With agentic AI now firmly established as a key component of modern software development, Microsoft graduated its Semantic Kernel Agent Framework to Release Candidate 1 status.

■	Hands On: New VS Code Insiders Build Creates Web Page from Image in Seconds
■	VS Code Copilot Previews New GPT-4o AI Code Completion Model
■	Xcode IDE from Microsoft Archrival Apple Gets Copilot AI
■	Microsoft Previews Copilot AI for Open-Source Eclipse IDE

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TypeScript 5.8 Improves Type Checking, Conditional Feature Delayed to 5.9

Microsoft shipped TypeScript 5.8 with improved type checking in some scenarios, but thorny problems caused the dev team to delay related work to the next release.

■	C# Dev Kit Previews .NET Aspire Orchestration
■	TypeScript 5.8 Beta Speeds Program Loads, Updates
■	TypeScript Tops New JetBrains 'Language Promise Index'
■	Microsoft Axing VBScript in Favor of JavaScript/PowerShell: Here's the Timeline

Poisson Regression Using C#

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demo of Poisson regression, where the goal is to predict a count of things arriving, such as the number of telephone calls received in a 10-minute interval at a call center. When your source data is close to mathematically Poisson distributed, Poisson regression is simple and effective.

■	Naive Bayes Regression Using C#
■	Random Neighborhoods Regression Using C#
■	Gradient Boosting Regression Using C#
■	Random Forest Regression and Bagging Regression Using C#

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Build GenAI Apps with Azure AI Foundry, Unlock Claude Sonnet 3.7 AI Model in Visual Studio, More

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