Content by James Rempt (4)

James Rempt shares takeaways from VSLive! San Diego on how experienced Visual Studio developers are adopting GitHub Copilot and other AI tools, while spending more time validating generated code and leaning on hands-on learning. The post also highlights how Visual Studio Subscription benefits support ongoing skill-building.

James Rempt explains how Azure credits included with eligible Visual Studio Subscriptions can be used as a personal Azure sandbox for learning and experimentation, including how the monthly credit works, what happens when you hit the spending limit, and key constraints around non-production use and service eligibility.

James Rempt recaps VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ 2026 with the main themes developers discussed—AI across the workflow, GitHub Copilot inside Visual Studio, and practical .NET modernization—and links to recorded sessions on performance, ASP.NET Core/Blazor, C#, and an MCP-based SQL agent scenario.

James Rempt explains how Azure Dev/Test pricing (included with eligible Visual Studio subscriptions) can reduce the cost of running non-production Azure environments, making it easier to provision production-like resources for testing, validation, and CI/CD workflows without letting cloud spend slow down iteration.