VS Code 1.112 adds native image support for agents, and I used it on three Microsoft AI Foundry leaderboard screenshots to see whether it could turn chart-heavy visuals into a useful developer summary ...

This hands-on PoC shows how I got an open-source model running locally in Visual Studio Code, where the setup worked, where it broke down, and what to watch out for if you want to apply a local model ...

Random forest regression is a tree-based machine learning technique to predict a single numeric value. A random forest is a collection (ensemble) of simple regression decision trees that are trained ...

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

Microsoft's new Azure Skills Plugin bundles curated Azure skills, the Azure MCP Server, and the Foundry MCP Server into a single install that gives AI coding agents both the expertise and execution ...

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TypeScript 6.0 RC represents the final major release built on the current JavaScript-based compiler. The upcoming TypeScript 7.0 will use a Go-based native implementation for enhanced speed and memory ...

Microsoft updates its reference WinUI 3 sample app with taskbar integration, clipboard samples, and quality-of-life fixes.

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says the technique is easy to tune, works well with small datasets and produces highly interpretable predictions, but there are also trade-off cons. The goal ...

When using the PyTorch neural network library to create a machine learning prediction model, you must prepare the training data and write code to serve up the data in batches. In situations where the ...

Microsoft has officially begun decommissioning its IntelliCode suite, marking the end of a multi-year effort to provide local, machine-learning-assisted code completions. The move, executed alongside ...

Interfacing with a public API from a .NET application is something that many developers find themselves needing to do. They can take several different approaches, but my favorite is an open source ...