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Azure MCP tools now ship built into Visual Studio 2022 — no extension required Azure MCP tools are now built into Visual Studio 2022 as part of the Azure development workload — no separate extension to find, install, or update. You can enable over 230 tools across 45 Azure services directly in GitHub Copilot Chat and m …
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Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.116 Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/visual-studio-code-1.116
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If you've ever loaded a map with dozens — or hundreds — of pins, you know the result: an overlapping mess that's impossible to interact with. Starting in .NET MAUI 11 Preview 3, the Map control supports pin clustering out of the box on Android and iOS/Mac Catalyst. Link to article: …
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JasperFx Software has been busy lately create a new set of AI Skill files that incorporate our recommendations for using the Critter Stack tools (Marten, Polecat, Wolverine, Weasel, Alba, and the soon forthcoming CritterWatch tool). As of the end of the day tomorrow (April 16th, 2026), these skill files will be …
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We’ve all been there: a bug report lands in your inbox with a title like "App crashes sometimes" and zero reproduction steps. Your morning, which was supposed to be spent building new features, is now a forensic investigation. You’re Link to article: …
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Today, we're announcing sheet tooltips in Amazon Quick Sight. Dashboard authors can now design custom tooltip layouts using free-form layout sheets. These layouts combine charts, key performance indicator (KPI) metrics, text, and other visuals into a single tooltip that renders dynamically when readers hover over data …
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In this post, you will learn how speculative decoding works and why it helps reduce cost per generated token on AWS Trainium2. Link to article: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/accelerating-decode-heavy-llm-inference-with-speculative-decoding-on-aws-trainium-and-vllm/
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This post is cowritten by Renata Salvador Grande, Gabriel Bueno and Paulo Laurentys at Rede Mater Dei de Saúde. The growing adoption of multi-agent AI systems is redefining critical operations in healthcare. In large hospital networks, where thousands of decisions directly impact cash flow, service delivery times, and …
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We're shipping two major capabilities that change how security teams enable and act on application security in Azure DevOps: CodeQL default setup makes it possible to enable code scanning across your organization without configuring a single pipeline, and a new combined alerts experience in Security Overview Link to …
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Our final bug-fix update for the 2025.11 On-Premises servers is now available. Version 2025.11.4 addresses a few issues, including the folowing: All TeamCity bug-fix updates include performance and security improvements, so we recommend that you never skip these minor updates. See TeamCity 2025.11.4 Release Notes for …
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You may have already seen other JetBrains tools in the Gartner Magic quadrant. Now Qodana is listed on Gartner Peer Insights too! This is an important milestone for us as we continue to grow Qodana into a leading code quality platform for modern development teams. But more importantly, it’s an opportunity for our users …
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Compare adapter vs facade pattern in C# with side-by-side code examples, key structural differences, and guidance on when to use each. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/04/15/adapter-vs-facade-pattern-in-c-key-differences-explained
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In my last video, I said that clean architecture was killing your velocity. And man, you guys had thoughts. The number one pushback, the hill a lot of people were willing to die on, was testing. And I get it. On the surface, it sounds reasonable. Create some interface or abstraction for testing purposes. But… Read More …
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OpenAI updates the Agents SDK with native sandbox execution and a model-native harness, helping developers build secure, long-running agents across files and tools. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/the-next-evolution-of-the-agents-sdk
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AI agents are quickly moving from experiments to production‑critical components of modern applications. But while many teams know how to build agents, far fewer are confident they’re hosting them on the right foundation. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/hostedagent
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Practices, Principles, and Strategic Direction Software delivery has entered a new phase. AI agents are no longer confined to autocomplete suggestions in the editor. They are opening pull requests, generating code across multiple files, proposing infrastructure changes, responding to issues with working …
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As active members of the Critter Stack community know, I’ve been increasingly concerned at our frequent release cadence, as that has been something we have been criticized for in the past. At least now, I feel like I can justifiably claim this is mostly due to the high volume of community contributions we get plus … …
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“Software developers fail in two ways: they build the thing wrong, or they build the wrong thing.” These two separate failure modes are worth exploring independently, because they have different root causes and very different consequences. And Agentic AI “developers” face the same challenges, but can do both much more …
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We're coming up on a year since launching Docker Hardened Images (DHI) this May, and crossing a milestone earlier this month made me stop and reflect on what we've actually been building. Earlier this month, we crossed over 500k daily pulls of DHIs, and over 25k continuously patched OS level artifacts in our SLSA …
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Master C# string comparison with Equals, OrdinalIgnoreCase, StringComparer, and culture-sensitive APIs. Avoid the ToLower() antipattern and Turkish i problem. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/04/14/c-string-comparison-equals-ordinalignorecase-stringcomparer-and-culture-pitfalls
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