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1 week ago | visualstudiomagazine.com | David Ramel

In-Depth With OpenAI's recent introduction of Codex CLI, the company hearkens us back to 2021 when its Codex AI model powered the tool that helped jump-start the GenAI revolution: GitHub Copilot. Of course, you probably couldn't pry Copilot out of the hands of Visual Studio Magazine readers nowadays, but yet another groundbreaking AI offering adds more clutter to the rapidly evolving scene.

1 week ago | visualstudiomagazine.com | David Ramel

News On the way to autonomous AI, Microsoft announced an early access research preview of "computer use" for Copilot Studio wherein AI agents visually interact with any app or website -- clicking, typing, and navigating like a human. Copilot Studio is Microsoft's low-code tool for building, customizing, and deploying AI-powered agents that automate tasks across apps and workflows.

1 week ago | visualstudiomagazine.com | David Ramel

News dtSearch, a specialist in enterprise and developer text retrieval software and document filters, announced it's now powering an upgrade to KaleidoSearch from Contegra Systems. While normally this wouldn't be of much importance to readers of Visual Studio Magazine, dtSearch is a perennial winner in our Reader's Choice Awards program, which as its name suggests ranks dozens of products as voted on by our readers.

1 week ago | visualstudiomagazine.com | David Ramel

News Microsoft' third preview of .NET 10 focuses on performance, developer ergonomics, and modern cloud-native patterns. While Preview 3 comes with a wide array of incremental improvements across performance, libraries, CLI tooling, ASP.NET Core/Blazor and more, it doesn't introduce any major new features. The cloud-native camp, however, sees improvements to containerization functionality, including the ability to natively create container images in console apps.

1 week ago | visualstudiomagazine.com | David Ramel

News The Model Context Protocol (MCP) for agentic AI has gained much traction since being introduced by Anthropic last November, and now it has a C# SDK. The MCP is a standard for integrating large language models (LLMs) with external tools and data sources -- or in other words, enabling AI agents to go and do things on their own, interacting with UIs to book flights and so on.