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#Developer Productivity
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Your .NET Repository Needs a Context Layer Before It Needs a Bigger Prompt
Custom instructions turn Copilot from a general assistant into a teammate that understands a .NET repository's conventions, architecture, and delivery rules.
TypeScript 7.0 Is More Than Fast: It Changes the Economics of Team Throughput
TypeScript 7’s native architecture and major speedups redefine feedback loops, CI cost, and editor responsiveness, making type safety cheaper at scale.
TypeScript 7 Is Fast, but the Bigger Lesson Is Migration Discipline
The VS Code migration story is really a masterclass in incremental engineering under real production constraints.
Building an AI-Powered Conference App with .NET's Composable Stack
Microsoft built ConferencePulse — a live conference Blazor app — by composing Microsoft.Extensions.AI, DataIngestion, VectorData, MCP, and Agent Framework together. Here's how the pieces fit.
Azure DevOps MCP Server April Update: WIQL Queries, PAT Auth, and Experimental MCP Apps
The Azure DevOps MCP Server gets WIQL-powered work item queries, Personal Access Token authentication, MCP annotations, and an experimental MCP Apps feature that packages common workflows into reusable tools.
Aspire 13.2 Gets Bun, Better Containers, and Less Debugging Friction
Aspire 13.2 adds first-class Bun support for Vite apps, fixes Yarn reliability, and ships container improvements that make local dev behavior honest. Here's what actually changed and why it matters.
68 Minutes a Day Re-Explaining Code to Copilot? There's a Fix for That
Context rot is real — your AI agent drifts after 30 turns, and you're paying the compaction tax every hour. auto-memory gives GitHub Copilot CLI surgical recall without burning thousands of tokens.