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DevClass.com reports on Visual Studio 18.5 (Visual Studio 2026), covering new Copilot-driven “agentic” debugging, changes to how IntelliSense/Copilot suggestions are prioritized, and ongoing developer complaints about theme contrast and forced auto-updates.

In this community deep dive, junjieli walks through the GA release of Microsoft Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code—covering model experimentation, agent development (no-code and code-first), evaluations, deployment to Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, and workflows for converting, profiling, and fine-tuning local models on Windows.

carlottacaste spotlights Athiq Ahmed’s winning Agents League Reasoning Agents project, CertPrep, detailing a Microsoft Foundry-based multi-agent pipeline that builds study plans, tracks readiness, generates assessments, and applies guardrails and human approval steps.

Dalibor_Kovacevic announces new Azure SRE Agent connectors for Log Analytics and Application Insights, enabling faster, MCP-backed KQL querying with simplified RBAC setup via managed identities.

Vineela-Suri walks through an event-driven pipeline where Terraform drift alerts trigger Azure SRE Agent via an authenticated HTTP endpoint, so the agent can correlate drift with Azure telemetry, classify severity, recommend safe remediation, notify Microsoft Teams, and even open a GitHub PR.

Sreekanth_Thirthala announces a public preview feature for Azure API Center: a plugin marketplace endpoint that lets developers discover and install AI plugins (including MCP servers and skills) from tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI, while keeping enterprise governance and auth intact.

cindywang explains how GitHub Copilot agents can modernize legacy Java and .NET code inside Docker Sandbox microVMs, keeping host filesystem paths consistent while avoiding risky Docker socket mounts and tightening egress controls during dependency upgrades.

chandanAggarwal announces the public preview of Container Network Insights Agent, an agentic AI assistant for diagnosing AKS networking issues by correlating Kubernetes, Cilium/Hubble, and node-level Linux telemetry, then producing evidence-backed root-cause reports and remediation commands.

Blanca Li summarizes April 2026 updates to Microsoft Foundry Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT): global training for o4-mini across 13+ Azure regions, new GPT-4.1 family model graders, and practical best practices plus pitfalls to help teams design reliable graders and scale fine-tuning safely.

Visual Studio Code shares a short video walkthrough of improvements to VS Code terminal tools for agent sessions, covering foreground terminal support, interactive input handling, progress messages, and background notifications to make command-driven workflows smoother.

The Visual Studio Code Team summarizes what’s new in Visual Studio Code 1.117, including improvements to agent sessions, terminal capture, and Git worktree isolation, plus editor UX fixes for package.json and JSDoc rendering.

Allison announces `gh skill`, a new GitHub CLI command for discovering, installing, updating, and publishing portable “agent skills” for AI coding agents (including GitHub Copilot), with a focus on version pinning and supply-chain integrity.

John Edward explains when to use single-agent vs multi-agent AI architectures in a Microsoft context, mapping common designs to Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, and Azure services like Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Functions, Service Bus, and AKS.

Microsoft Developer hosts Shawn Henry and Rong Lu as they walk through the Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) 1.0 GA release, covering stable APIs, multi-agent handoff orchestration, Python and .NET support, plus the Foundry Toolkit for VS Code with debugging, testing-style evaluation, and GitHub Copilot integration.

Microsoft Developer introduces SQL projects in SSMS 22.5, showing how to bring an existing production database into source control as a SQL project and use it across VS Code, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps for a more reliable database DevOps workflow.

Microsoft Developer walks through Foundry Agent Service managed memory and how it integrates with Microsoft Agent Framework and LangGraph to build stateful agents that retain context across sessions, including per-user scoping, automatic extraction, and CRUD APIs for memory control.

Michelle_Moya announces expanded App attach support in Azure Virtual Desktop, adding Windows Server 2025 and Windows Server 2022 session hosts to enable dynamic delivery of packaged apps without baking them into base images.

Aviram Shemesh and Jennifer Rutzer explain how to build a cryptographic inventory and run an ongoing cryptographic posture management lifecycle, using Microsoft Security tooling (like Defender and GitHub Advanced Security), Azure services (like Key Vault and Network Watcher), and partner CPM solutions to improve quantum-safe readiness.

Lawrence Gripper explains how GitHub uses eBPF and cgroups to prevent deployment scripts from introducing circular dependencies (like needing github.com during an outage), including a Go-based proof of concept that monitors and conditionally blocks network/DNS access for deploy processes.

Allison announces new GitHub improvements: a rule insights dashboard to visualize repository ruleset evaluations (successes, failures, bypasses) and a unified filter bar across alert dismissal and bypass request pages for code scanning, Dependabot, and secret scanning.