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• What to do with all the free time you got by using Copilot?

• Guided chat experience with VS and Copilot

• How to build modern web apps in Azure

• VMWare workstation and Fusion are now free

• Start using the .NET 9 version to get improved performance and features.

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GitHub Digest

Are you already using AI tools to help you in your development work? According to this GH article, tools like Copilot can change how developers work and spend their time.

AI tools can boost developer productivity by up to 55%, so what can you do with all this freed-up time?

Did you know you can sign your commits? This allows you to prove that the commit you made was indeed created by you. However, the way signatures are verified is not always that consistent.

The new persistent commit signature verification is a new way to prove the origin of the commit. Read more to get all the details.

Coding Corner

Using Copilot is not always an easy task, you need to know the right prompts so it can help you optimally.

Starting from Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 Preview 3, Microsoft added a feature to provide a guided chat experience. When the context is clear enough, Copilot will provide direct answers, otherwise, it will ask follow-up questions.

Have a monolith web application in the cloud and wonder how to refactor this into a modern web app? Then check out this guidance from Microsoft.

The Modern Web App Pattern is a set of objectives to help you apply an iterative change to modernize a cloud deployed monolith.

When you need to run different operating systems, maybe for development, or just to test things in isolation, then virtualization can be very useful. You do need specific software for this and some months ago you could use the VMWare tools as an individual for free.

Now you can also use these tools for free for commercial use.

There are many tools to use for API testing, like Postman, Insomnia, Thunder Client, Hopscotch, but this one is also pretty neat. A terminal based API client!

Azure Updates & Insights

Of course, you use a managed identity to access your database from your container, but what to do when you cannot access the data and get an access denied instead?

Don’t panic, the below article can help you debug this problem.

.NET Nook

Yes, it is available now; .NET 9! Another major release, which means 8 and 9 are now the supported frameworks. Version 6 was end of support a couple of days ago.

A lot of performance improvements, Aspire 9, Artificial Intelligence, ASP.NET, Blazor and much more. Read the full announcement to learn more and start developing with .NET 9.

Adding Entra authentication to your apps becomes easier than ever with this new Visual Studio Code extension. Read how you can use this to create tenants, configure sign-in experiences and set up the integration.

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