Copilot Reviews, Async, and Agent Memory
This edition covers Git recovery, Polly circuit breakers, .NET 11 previews, MAUI AI, Azure SQL containers, PostgreSQL, and MCP servers.
Jasen's top three picks
- 1 🔎 Change Font Size Without Zooming VS Code UI #vscode #developertips #coding #programming
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Want to make your code or terminal text bigger in VS Code without zooming the entire UI? In this quick tip, learn how to use keyboard shortcuts to increase o...
- 2 How to Recover a Deleted File in Git After Pushing
c-sharpcorner.com
Learn how to restore a deleted file in Git using git restore, previous commits, and parent commits without reverting the entire commit or branch.
- 3 GitHub Copilot Code Review for Azure Repos: AI vs Human Code Review
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Compare GitHub Copilot code review with human review for Azure Repos, evaluating bug detection, false positives, review quality, consistency, and developer p...
Editor's note
I pulled together a deliberately varied mix of practical tooling, runtime, data, and AI reading. The Cosmos DB integration for Microsoft Agent Framework stands out for durable agent memory, while the circuit-breaker guidance is a useful reminder that resilience settings need deliberate tuning.
Today's articles
🔎 Change Font Size Without Zooming VS Code UI #vscode #developertips #coding #programming
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Want to make your code or terminal text bigger in VS Code without zooming the entire UI? In this quick tip, learn how to use keyboard shortcuts to increase or decrease the editor font size and termina...
Topics: Visual Studio Code
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How to Recover a Deleted File in Git After Pushing
c-sharpcorner.com
Learn how to restore a deleted file in Git using git restore, previous commits, and parent commits without reverting the entire commit or branch.
Topics: GitHub
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GitHub Copilot Code Review for Azure Repos: AI vs Human Code Review
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Compare GitHub Copilot code review with human review for Azure Repos, evaluating bug detection, false positives, review quality, consistency, and developer productivity.
Topics: Azure DevOps GitHub Copilot
Read articleGitHub Copilot Agent Plugins: Testing Plugin Trust Across VS Code and Copilot CLI
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Learn how to test GitHub Copilot agent plugin trust across VS Code and Copilot CLI, including permissions, tool access, security, and reproducibility.
Topics: GitHub Copilot Security Visual Studio Code
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Guidelines for Tuning Circuit Breaker Settings Effectively
medium.com
This article explores the Circuit Breaker resilience strategy in Polly, emphasizing its use for HTTP client requests with .NET extensions…
Topics: Design Patterns REST API
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Why I Moved to Mac from Windows as a .NET Developer
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Learn PostgreSQL for Free at Dometrain: https://dometrain.com/course/hands-on-learn-postgresql/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will talk about why I de...
Topics: .NET Core
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Native memory for Microsoft Agent Framework with Azure Cosmos DB
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Agents are more useful when they can remember what matters beyond the current conversation. Today, we're announcing a new preview integration that gives Microsoft Agent Framework agents durable, cross...
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What Is That d__X Thing? A Simple Guide to How Async/Await Really Works
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Have you ever looked at an error stack trace and seen something strange, like…
Topics: C#
Read articleAsync Await Just Got A Massive Improvement in .NET
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Learn Hands-On for Free at Dometrain: https://dometrain.com/courses/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will talk about the new .NET 11 Runtime Async featu...
Topics: C# Performance
Read article.NET Unboxed: .NET 11 Release Candidate 1!!
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Join the team showing off their favorite features in .NET 11 in this release party for .NET 11 RC 1!! ⌚ Chapters: 00:00 Countdown 02:27 Welcome to Unboxing .NET 11 RC1 03:15 Blog and Release Notes 03:...
Topics: C#
Read articleDiscriminated Unions Are Finally in .NET But
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Get every Dometrain 30% off with code HANDSON30: https://dometrain.com/courses/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube&coupon_code=HANDSON30 Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will showcase unio...
Topics: C#
Read articleAzure SQL Developer Container: Building Offline .NET Development Environments
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Learn how to use the Azure SQL Developer container to build local and offline .NET development environments with consistent database behavior for development and CI/CD.
Topics: Docker SQL Server
Read article529: Agent, MCP, and Tooling: Taming Cross‑Platform DevFlows
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In this update-packed episode James and Frank dive into developer tooling: the VS Code Mobile Canvas that embeds emulators into your editor, MAUI DevFlow’s rewrite enabling plain .NET/native (and desk...
Topics: .NET MAUI Visual Studio Code
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On-Device AI in .NET MAUI Without Model Lock-In
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A provider-agnostic architecture for cloud, local, and platform-native AI with Microsoft.Extensions.AI Continue reading on DevOps.dev »
Topics: .NET MAUI
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On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 1
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You may have a base class that implements only partial functionality and relies on the derived class to do the rest. How do you make sure that the derived class does the rest? For concreteness, let's ...
Topics: C# Design Patterns
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The Agentic Road to Revenue
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The Agentic Road to Revenue
Topics: Azure
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GitHub Copilot Code Review Is Getting Smarter — Don’t Let It Become Your Merge Gate
medium.com
GitHub just made Copilot code review more autonomous. The best use is not replacing human review — it’s removing low-value review work…
Topics: GitHub Copilot
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Reducing Token Usage
jesseliberty.com
If you want to hold costs down, efficient resource management is paramount. One of the critical resources in AI applications is token usage. Tokens are the basic units of text that models process, and...
Topics: Performance
Read articleHow to Automate Versioning in a Razor Pages Application
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As the first step, you need to add the “MinVer” nuget package into your project.
Topics: ASP.NET Core
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10 Rare SQL Features Every Developer Should Know
antondevtips.com
Senior developers reach for SQL features most juniors never learn. Here are 10 powerful PostgreSQL features - CTEs, window functions, LATERAL joins, FILTER, UPSERT, JSON, generated columns, and more -
Topics: PostgreSQL
Read articleBuilding MCP servers with VS Code — Level up your MCP
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Learn how MCP servers have evolved beyond local tool calls into richer, production-ready agent capabilities. Through a live VS Code demo, we’ll build an agentic achievement tracker that uses tools, el...
Topics: GitHub Copilot Visual Studio Code
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