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🚀 Tab wrangling, now keyboard-first in Visual Studio 2026 v18.11. ⌨️ Ctrl+Shift+PgUp/PgDn → move tabs ⚡ Ctrl+NumPad1–9 → jump by visual position Arrange your working set, then fly between files. 🧑‍💻 msft.it/63324avSp6

No symbols. No source code. Just a crash dump staring back at you. Used to be the end of the story. Marco Peyrot Carrion shows what changed. The whole process: msft.it/63322avs5n

Buried in chat history. Forgotten by tomorrow. Yeojun Han turns your best AI prompts into reusable workflows instead: msft.it/63329avqCT

🧵 C++ futures, round 2! ⚙️ See how std::promise + std::packaged_task build on shared state, with get_future() providing the IOU while results or exceptions flow back through the source. 🧠 Async C++, demystified. 👇 msft.it/63328av3c2

Testing doesn't have to eat your budget. Discounted Dev/Test pricing is a Visual Studio Subscriber-exclusive perk. Pair it with your monthly Azure credit for real room to test and iterate. Get the most out of your subscription: msft.it/63325av3Kz

🧰 AI isn’t replacing the developer toolkit. It’s expanding it. 🤖 At VSLive! San Diego, developers shared how AI + hands-on experimentation are reshaping how they learn and solve problems, while developer judgment stays essential. 🧠⚡ 👉 Read: msft.it/63321avMAc

Turn your expertise into reusable AI skills. Dalia Abo Sheasha shows how in this clip from #VSLive! MSHQ. Dive into the full session: msft.it/63327avMKb

GPT-6.1 Terra from OpenAI is now generally available in #VisualStudio Copilot. Try it out for everyday agentic coding at a lower cost than GPT-6.1 Sol. Learn more: msft.it/63327aLEE7 #GitHubCopilot #AI

🧠 C++ futures, minus the magic. 🪄 std::promise, std::async + std::future boil down to a shared source: store a value/exception, synchronize with mutex + condition variable, then retrieve or consume it. ⚙️🧵 👉 Read: msft.it/63329avHEL

🛑 Build failed? Stop building. Visual Studio 2026 18.11 can halt a solution after the first project failure: queued projects don’t start, active builds stop safely, and you get back to debugging faster. ⚡ 👉 Read the blog: msft.it/63321avGQ9

Your AI agent can query your database without writing a single line of SQL. Bob Ward shows how: msft.it/63323asYfb

You've got one afternoon to level up. Where do you go: Cloud Academy, Microsoft Learn, Pluralsight, or CODE Magazine? Curious what everyone picks. - MS Learn - Pluralsight - Cloud Academy - Code Magazine Drop your answer below 👇

🧠 C++/WinRT access specifiers hit differently. Implemented interface = public 🌎 - public = module-internal 📦 - protected = derived types - private = same class 🔐 The Old New Thing explains why. Read 👇 msft.it/63327asibT

Semantic search is powerful, but sometimes exact keywords are still the answer. Anna Hoffman tackles why the real answer might be a hybrid of both: msft.it/63324asi6p

What if you could group unrelated types together without an inheritance hierarchy? Dustin Campbell and Mads Torgersen explore C# unions: msft.it/63322as6DA

One YOLO deploy to production, that's all it takes. Drew Skwiers-Koballa has a safer way: msft.it/63321aSh2J

👀 What happens when Security Tool A hooks a system function… then Security Tool B hooks a function Tool A depends on? 💥 Detours meet detours. 🔐 Quarantine meets interference. 🧩 Debugging gets spicy. Read 👉 msft.it/63323aShS9

Code as an asset, not an artifact. AI writes it fast, but future you is the one maintaining it. That's exactly what Mads Kristensen gets into: msft.it/63327aShpD

Give AI tools, not just prompts. Kayla Cinnamon and James Montemagno build a custom tool the model can call directly instead of guessing. See it in action: msft.it/63323aSChh

AI found a 90% optimization. It still needed an engineer's judgment call. Mark Downie and Sireesha Pisipati get into it. See how they get there: msft.it/63321aSAj9

🤯 How can an undefined CPU opcode… have operands? Welcome to x86 history. 🧠⚙️ 0F FF could be decoded + parse operands before 💥 invalid opcode. Then backward compatibility helped keep PADDQ out of its natural slot. CPU archaeology awaits. 🏺 Read 👉 msft.it/63329aSAE7

Visual Studio Subscribers, CODE Magazine is already yours. Real technical writing, from developers, for developers. Start reading: msft.it/63329aSfQW

💥 Your CPU just hit code that should never execute. But was it int 3 or ud2? 👀 int 3 → “there’s no code here” ud2 → “you reached an unreachable/undefined path” 😬 Same crashy vibes. Very different debugging clues. 🧠⚙️ 👉 msft.it/63323aSk1H

Anna Hoffman argues your database belongs in source control, just like your application code: msft.it/63329aSXv3

Your browser just became a bouncer. ️ Daniel Roth shows how it catches sketchy requests before your app ever sees them. Dive into the full session: msft.it/63320aSXiK

SPA feel, zero WebAssembly.  Daniel Roth pulls it off. See how: msft.it/63320aSrLY

That's semantic search.  Yo-Lei Chen breaks down how SQL Server's vector data types make it happen. See how: msft.it/63326aSrlI

Your Visual Studio Subscription comes with more Azure perks than you might realize. Monthly credit, exclusive Dev/Test pricing, plus Pluralsight or Cloud Academy, training platforms with Azure courses to help you build your skills. See what's included: msft.it/63329aSRfR

A 40-terabyte database, restored in seven minutes. ✨ Bob Ward explains how. See the full explanation and more: msft.it/63322aSRYn

Yes, this is WinForms.  Klaus Loeffelman shows what it looks like in the .NET 11 preview. See it for yourself: msft.it/63322aoir2

🔥 Think hot-patching started recently? Think again. Windows on Itanium shipped with a surprisingly elegant hot-patching design that made live updates much simpler than you'd expect. ⚙️🤯 A fascinating deep dive into OS and CPU architecture history. 📖 msft.it/63320aojt0

Byte Break Friday! 🎧 What is on in the background when you are deep in the code? Drop your go-to in the comments 👇

What if your app never had to move data around just to use AI? Anna Hoffman and Bob Ward get into what it looks like when AI runs right inside the database engine. See how: msft.it/63321aoDDb

Stop making your AI agent rediscover your best practices. ⚡ James Montemagno shows how to just tell it. See how: msft.it/63320ao8Fe

🩹💻 Hot patching sounds simple... until CPU architecture gets involved. Why did Windows support hot patching on some architectures but not 32-bit ARM or MIPS? 🤔 A fascinating look at instruction sets, patchability, and OS design. 📖 msft.it/63329ao859

Unnecessary ToList() and ToArray() calls cost you performance.  Jason Bock shows what to search for. See what to look for: msft.it/63328ao8Gq

The fastest way to modernize isn't asking AI to rewrite everything, it's having a plan first. Jon Galloway digs into why: msft.it/63322aoBIg

🧠 C++ trivia that isn't trivia: Function-local static variables initialize exactly once. ⚙️ But how do compilers and runtimes guarantee that, especially with multiple threads? 🤔 🚀 Read the deep dive: msft.it/63325aWCn3 #cpp #cplusplus #devtools

Out of the inbox. Into the session. VSLive! sessions + hands-on labs. ⚡ msft.it/63327aWCkB

💡☁️ If Azure budget approval wasn't required... what would you build? #AI agents? RAG apps? Massive experiments? 🚀🧠 Turn ideas into deployed solutions faster and spend more time coding, less time negotiating resources. 📖 msft.it/63320aW29I

Would you trust one AI prompt to migrate your whole codebase? Jason Bock tackles why that's not enough: msft.it/63329aW28U

Your AI agent has a context budget. Too much context can actually make it less effective. Kayla Cinnamon gets into how to manage it: msft.it/63322aWLpK

Gemini 4 Argon is now available in #VisualStudio. Early testing showed stronger coding results than previous Gemini models, with thorough validation and edge-case testing before completing tasks. Choose it from the #Copilot Chat model picker and give it a try. Details: msft.it/63329as8Rx

🕵️‍♂️💥 Crash dump says add byte ptr [eax], al... which really means: "you're executing zeroes." 😅 Episode 3 of Raymond Chen’s #debugging mystery traces a corrupted detour, bogus instructions, and suspicious executable memory. 📖 msft.it/63324aWL10

The best time to catch a bug is before your users do. Test it, break it, fix it, then ship it. Your VS Subscription's Azure credit + Dev/Test pricing helps make room for that. Take a look: msft.it/63322aWImj

The best results with AI don't start with code, they start with the planning and conversations about what to build and how. Sebastian Hernandez and Wendy Breiding get into why that beats a one-shot AI attempt every time: msft.it/63325aWR2B

Searching every row works, until you have millions of them. Anna Hoffman gets into what changes at that scale: msft.it/63321aWRfL

Classic extension methods were basically scaffolding. Dustin Campbell and Mads Torgersen dig into how C#'s new extension members feature changes that: msft.it/63326aWRUm

⚙️ C++ deep dive! Should lazy initialization use std::call_once or std::async(std::launch::deferred)? 🤔 Memory footprint, shared futures, thread-safety, exception behavior, and hidden runtime costs all come into play. 🚀 📖 Read: msft.it/63327aWR1B

Skills = Brain. MCP = Hands. Simona Liao and Leah Tran get into how the two need to work together for AI agents: msft.it/63324aWuon