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After a wave of announcements from Microsoft Build, this edition is packed with big shifts across GitHub, Azure, and .NET. From GitHub Copilot’s new autonomous coding agent to Visual Studio Code’s fresh Baseline and ReSharper integrations—there’s plenty to explore.

Also: Azure introduces Service Groups for smarter resource management, .NET Aspire gets a Copilot boost, and PostgreSQL proves it’s still powering major AI workloads.

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Here’s what’s inside this week:

• GitHub Copilot turns into your AI teammate

• Self-service data residency trials for GitHub Enterprise

• VS Code and Rider get major AI tooling upgrades

• OpenAI’s take on scaling Postgres in Azure

• Azure’s new Service Groups for cross-subscription resource views

• .NET Aspire 9.3 with Copilot integration

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GitHub Digest

Some big announcements recently at MS Build; Copilot will be an even more coding buddy for you. It could already do a PR review, but now you can also assign it an issue.

It will take the work, analyze it, propose the code change, and present it in a pull request for you to review. You can also just chat with the agent: @github Open a pull request to refactor this query generator into its own class

Not only text but also images can be used as a source. Have data outside GitHub? Give the agent access to this data via an MCP server.

Available for Copilot Enterprise and Pro+ users and might need to be turned on via a policy.

Did you know that you could build AI projects directly from within GitHub? Models, prompts, evaluations etc are all available to create your next AI system with GitHub Models. Enable the preview under the org/repo options and get a nice Models tab where you can play with prompts using different models.

Your favorite Copilot Chat extension inside Visual Studio Code will move from a closed-source to an open-source license. Access to the source code has several advantages, like seeing what is actually sent to the servers, but also improving UI components or even learning how this works.

It looked like a great feature; when somebody created a new repository, you became a watcher and received notifications about any changes. However, in organizations with so many repos, this was unmanageable. You could turn this behavior off, but now this will even become the default.

Azure DevOps is still a great product and pretty on pair with GitHub (and for some things even further), but it is missing one thing: Copilot. For the AI functionality, you will need to explore GitHub. However, connecting or even converting to GitHub is easier than ever with the guidance and available tools.

Also the other way around; the Azure DevOps MCP server allows you to connect GitHub Copilot chat to Azure DevOps and give it instructions.

Don’t forget; that even licenses can be as cheap as free when you already have Azure DevOps subscriptions.

Coding Corner

You don’t always need a new cloud-scale database as you have proven technology like Postgres. A recent presentation by OpenAI shows that they can scale Postgres on Azure to serve the infrastructure of their chatgpt services. Dive into the technicalities of running such a system.

Building a website for many different browsers does raise the question if a used element or feature is available in all browsers. There are plenty of extensions in VS Code for this, but with the new Baseline support, this is baked into the editor itself.

Being a big fan of Rider, and used Resharper when I used Visual Studio back in my Windows days, I like the direction of introducing Resharper in Visual Studio Code.

During the public preview, you can use it for free. It also shows that Visual Studio Code is a serious IDE for any kind of development with these kinds of investments.

Azure Updates & Insights

If you ever did the Azure Foundation exam (AZ-900), you learned that resources live inside a resource group, which is part of a subscription. With the newly introduced Service Groups, you get a lot more options for grouping your resources.

• Multiple Hierarchies: Service Groups enable scenarios where the resources can be grouped in different views for multiple purposes.

• Flexible Membership: Service Groups allow resources from different subscriptions to be grouped together, providing a unified view and management capabilities. They also allow the grouping of subscriptions, resource groups, and resources.

• Low Privilege Management: Service Groups are designed to operate with minimal permissions, ensuring that users can manage resources without needing excessive access rights.

Read all about the new Service Groups in the below MS Learn article:

.NET Nook

An MCP server is an excellent way to connect your app to AI solutions as it opens a protocol to communicate. So what if you can hook up your CLI tool and use any MCP client to talk to it? The below blog article shows how you can create such a tool.

AI is everywhere, so also in the .NET Aspire dashboard. Use the Copilot integration to analyze your logs and traces. Or debug the different services and dependencies.

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