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Utkarsh Shigihalli retweeted
Hosting our next DevOps GitHub meetup in Brighton on Wed 29/04/26 at 18:00, alongside fellow MVP @onlyutkarsh We’ll cover AI-assisted coding with GitHub Copilot, practical workflows in #VSCode + CLI & real-world use cases.
Join us: meetup.com/devops-github-con…
#GitHubCopilotDevDays
Utkarsh Shigihalli retweeted
🎉 Big milestone for #MicrosoftAI!
Azure AI Foundry Models + Security Copilot are now ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certified ✅
This global AI standard means more trust, transparency & responsible innovation.
🔗 Learn more: msft.it/6019s8Bg3
#MVPBuzz #AI #Azure #MicrosoftLearn
Utkarsh Shigihalli retweeted
At this year’s Chelsea Flower Show Raspberry Pi 5 and Hailo AI worked together to automatically recognise and record photos of bees and butterflies.
Embedded sensors in trees also prompted conversations with visitors about each tree’s health via an app.
Oh… and this Intelligent Garden by Avanade also won a gold award for Best Construction 🥇 🍾 🏆
raspberrypi.com/news/avanade…
Utkarsh Shigihalli retweeted
We promised, we delivered. The GitHub Copilot Chat client for VS Code is now open source under the MIT license. This means, you can:
🔍 Explore the code on GitHub
🛠️ Open PRs, file issues & contribute
💬 See what prompts/context we send to LLMs
🤖 Use Copilot agent mode to implement your own features and bugfixes
And this is just the beginning. Next, we’ll refactor components of Copilot into the heart of VS Code.
Open source is the largest team sport on earth. Together, let’s keep winning! 🥇
Utkarsh Shigihalli retweeted
🚀 VS Code now supports the full Model Context Protocol spec! From tools to prompts, resources, sampling, & a new security-first auth model—MCP is now a complete standard for AI agent integration.
Read the full post: aka.ms/AAwoaxm
#VSCode #AI #MCP
🚀 v1.101 of @code is here! Check out what’s new:
- Supporting all MCP spec capabilities
- Chat tool sets
- Copilot coding agent integration
- Source Control Graph improvements
…and so much more: aka.ms/VSCodeRelease
🧶 Here are some of the highlights…
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Utkarsh Shigihalli retweeted
🎉 Bruno Capuano (@elbruno) is celebrating the 50 million devs using #VisualStudio and #VSCode by spotlighting his favorite extension: AI Toolkit for VS Code➖empowering developers and AI engineers to build, test, and deploy intelligent applications using generative AI models.
Learn more about how else we're celebrating this awesome achievement: msft.it/6014SWq2K
...and keep the celebration rolling by sharing your favorite extension and be sure to use #VS50M and #sweepstakes for a chance to win a limited-edition T-shirt. 👕 (18+. Ends 7/6/25. See blog for rules.)
Utkarsh Shigihalli retweeted
Today, at Build we showed you how we are building the open agentic web. It is reshaping every layer of the stack, and our goal is to help every dev build apps and agents that empower people and orgs everywhere. Here are 5 big things we announced today:
Utkarsh Shigihalli retweeted
You can use my free T-SQL Analyzer command line tool to check for over 140 anti-patterns in your SQL scripts directly in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
#dotnet #sqlserver #databases
github.com/ErikEJ/SqlServer.…
Utkarsh Shigihalli retweeted
Enhance your terminal experience in @code by enabling this one setting ⚙️
The terminal.integrated.suggest.enabled setting, currently in preview, surfaces rich completion support for your terminal.
Utkarsh Shigihalli retweeted
Announcing GitHub Copilot Free!
A new free tier for GitHub Copilot, available for everyone today in @code
No trial. No subscription. No credit card required.
Learn more in our blog: aka.ms/copilot-free
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Great news! Rider and WebStorm Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use | The JetBrains Blog bit.ly/3UmlQzS
#dev #jetbrains #rider
Utkarsh Shigihalli retweeted
SQL Formatter Visual Studio extension
By Mads Kristensen.
marketplace.visualstudio.com…
This is a welcome edition to Visual Studio.
Since SQL-Server is what I use 99 percent of the time this is what I tested.
How did it do? Excellent.
I liked the option for comma last rather than comma first.
How does the extension compare to Red Gate's SQL-Prompt formatter? Pretty close.
Is it perfect? At least for me, good enough and its free.
The only way the extension can be improved is for developers to try it out and leave a review.
Hopefully at some point the extension becomes part of Visual Studio.
Wish list
💡An option to remove square brackets.
Utkarsh Shigihalli retweeted
We've just launched UseCasesFor.ai (today!)
It celebrates the increasing use of AI by sharing over 250 use cases of AI across various industries and different AI technologies.
Not super detailed yet, we're going for breadth and then later depth.
I'd love to get peoples feedback on how we can make it better, or industries and use cases we've missed. Thanks all!
#UseCasesForAI
ALT Over 250 use cases for AI
Write wiki in Azure DevOps? Try my new #vscode extension - Preview your markdown files in the familiar format of Azure DevOps Wiki, right from within Visual Studio Code! #VSCode #DevOps #Markdown #azuredevops
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+20k downloads but only 8 genuine reviews on the marketplace page. Shows open source work is purely driven by developer passion and demand for free software overshadows contributions and any kind of feedback.. #opensource #vscode
🌟Get the latest update of my VSCode extension! This release adds new features including support for Git signingkey, profile deletion, seamless migration of your existing profiles to new formats, and fixes many critical bugs.
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#vscode #developers #GitHub
🌟Get the latest update of my VSCode extension! This release adds new features including support for Git signingkey, profile deletion, seamless migration of your existing profiles to new formats, and fixes many critical bugs.
marketplace.visualstudio.com…
#vscode #developers #GitHub
I built a new website for my WordStash iOS app using @astrodotbuild and managed to get a perfect SEO score! Loving it 🥳
Utkarsh Shigihalli retweeted
We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI's new leadership team and working with them. And we’re extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success.
Utkarsh Shigihalli retweeted
Harness the power of scaling using @kedaorg add-on for AKS which is now generally available.
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#AKS #Azure #Kubernetes #k8s #CloudNative #KEDA
The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team launches Radius, a new open application platform for the cloud
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#microsoft