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Amaury Levé explains how MSTest 4.4 uses source generation to make test projects publishable and runnable as Native AOT executables, so your tests exercise the same trimming and reflection constraints as the app you deploy.

Stefan Kingham’s documentary traces how Visual Studio Code evolved from early web-based editor experiments into a widely used, open-source developer tool, covering key technical and product shifts like Electron, extensions, LSP, remote development, and the editor’s adaptation to the AI era including GitHub Copilot.

Kayla Cinnamon explains how the GitHub Copilot app can run multiple agent sessions in parallel on the same project by isolating each session with its own Git worktree, so you can queue up tasks (like feature work, accessibility review, and tests) and review results as they complete.

Allison summarizes what’s new in CodeQL 2.26.4 for GitHub code scanning, including language support updates and query accuracy improvements that affect security detections across C#, Java/Kotlin, and GitHub Actions workflows.

dotnet covers the production-readiness pieces for an AI agent, focusing on observability with OpenTelemetry, governance and data protection with Microsoft Purview, and quality evaluation as the SDK evolves, then shows how to deploy the agent to Foundry Hosted Agents and maintain it with a refresh-prompt workflow.

Visual Studio Code shows how to use the Command Palette to navigate faster in VS Code, including opening recent files, jumping to symbols in the current file, grouping symbols by type, and searching for symbols across the entire workspace.

Mads Kristensen shows how to give each Visual Studio solution its own color theme so multiple IDE instances are easier to tell apart. He also explains the new scoped settings model in Visual Studio 2026, where solution-level settings are stored in a JSON file you can optionally commit to source control for consistent team setup.

James Montemagno introduces VS Code agent plugins and how they package and share AI customizations—like skills, MCP servers, and custom agents—so teams can reuse the same setup across projects and environments.

GitHub hosts a multi-hour Copilot Day live session covering new releases, hands-on demos, and practical workflows, including how Copilot works across GitHub, the CLI, and VS Code, plus a live-coding segment with Burke Holland, Pierce Boggan, and guests.

gurjsing shows how to turn Microsoft’s published compliance scope (using Germany’s C5 as the example) into enforceable Azure controls by extracting the certified-service list from the Service Trust Portal, mapping it to ARM resource types, and deploying a deny/audit Azure Policy with a reviewable, automated workflow.

Amit Ganguli announces the public preview of the Resiliency Agent in Azure Copilot, which helps teams assess zonal resiliency across subscriptions, prioritize fixes with cost-aware indicators, and generate deployment-ready Bicep/Terraform templates and scripts to remediate gaps.

Allison announces general availability of Enterprise Live Migrations (ELM), a GitHub Enterprise feature for near-zero-downtime migrations from GitHub Enterprise Server to GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency, including cutover behavior, monorepo support, and CLI-based lifecycle management.

GitHub introduces a GitHub CLI update that lets developers attach local images or videos to issues, pull requests, and comments using a repeatable --attach flag, making it easier to share visual context directly in GitHub discussions.

Allison announces a generally available GitHub billing update that lets admins set an expiration date on individual user budgets, so temporary budget overrides are removed automatically and users fall back to the next applicable budget.

Sreekanth Thirthala introduces APIOps CLI, an open-source command-line tool for managing Azure API Management configuration as source-controlled artifacts, enabling reviewable pull-request workflows and repeatable promotions across environments using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps pipelines.

Allison announces a public preview update to GitHub Copilot code review that adds approval assessments on pull requests and, when enabled by admins, allows Copilot to submit an approval that can count toward required-approvals rules.

Microsoft Developer presents a student-focused course that uses the GitHub Copilot app to turn a resume into a live portfolio site, while teaching Git fundamentals, GitHub Pages deployment, Copilot modes, context/tokens, MCP servers, skills, and bring-your-own-model with Azure AI Foundry.

Nimrod Shalit introduces a new set of Microsoft Learn resources for implementing CI/CD in Microsoft Fabric, covering platform concepts, best practices, and hands-on tutorials for deploying Fabric items across dev/test/prod using Git integration, Azure DevOps pipelines, Terraform, the Fabric CLI, and the fabric-cicd library.

Jonah Andersson explains how to take AI agents from prototype to production by building MCP servers on Azure Functions, using .NET to expose tools that agents can discover and invoke at runtime. The session uses a DevOps CI/CD scenario where agents detect deployment issues, diagnose failures, and create rollback PRs in Azure DevOps.

Allison announces an update to GitHub Discussions that lets owners of personal repositories block or unblock users directly from a discussion comment, matching the in-context controls already available for issue and pull request comments.

Aaron Powell walks through reviewing GitHub pull requests directly inside Visual Studio, from opening the PR list and navigating diffs to leaving inline comments, approving, and merging. He also shows how to bring GitHub Copilot into the review by adding a PR as chat context using the UI or the #pullrequest: command.

Allison announces a GitHub CLI update that lets you attach local images and videos directly from the command line when creating or commenting on issues and pull requests, keeping Markdown intact and supporting common auth tokens and plan-based size limits.

Authorised Territory shows how to use Git worktrees in the Visual Studio 2026 August update to pause half-finished work without stashing, by creating a separate working directory tied to a new branch while keeping current changes intact.

meghasony shares guidance on structuring dbt jobs in Microsoft Fabric, focusing on how to place Bronze/Silver/Gold layers across Lakehouse and Warehouse, and how to separate architecture decisions from orchestration choices using Fabric pipelines or native scheduling.

Lily Ma explains how to extend Azure SRE Agent with operational tools by hosting Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers on Azure Connector Namespace. The post walks through deploying an Azure SQL MCP server with azd, wiring it into SRE Agent as an MCP connector, and securing access using managed identity.

Allison’s August 2026 changelog rounds up GitHub Copilot updates shipped across VS Code 1.132–1.135, focusing on agent sessions, chat navigation and review, an integrated browser for UI feedback, and improved dictation—plus new ways to inspect per-model token usage during conversations.

Welcome to this week's DevOps roundup, where GitHub sharpened the knobs teams use to manage CI/CD evidence and policy enforcement. Actions retention is expanding beyond artifacts and logs to include checks, workflow runs, and statuses starting October 1, 2026, so teams that depend on long-lived history for audits, incident timelines, or DORA-style reporting should review retention and export plans now. On the governance side, rule insights is now generally available at repo and org scopes with filters, bypass reporting, and CSV export, while push rules added path exceptions in preview to help you enforce strict controls where they matter without blocking low-risk paths.

jkordick lays out a practical framework for verifying agentic AI output in application modernization work, focusing on how to replace “looks good to me” with layered checks that produce concrete, actionable results for reverse engineering and code generation.

Amanda Silver reflects on how Visual Studio Code grew from an open source editor into a platform shaped by its extension ecosystem, and how GitHub Copilot changed expectations for developer tools by bringing AI-powered coding assistance into everyday workflows.

Allison summarizes the August 2026 update for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio, including organization-level custom agents, usage visibility, model selection and “thinking effort” controls, and a Git agent that can review uncommitted changes or commits before opening a pull request.

Allison summarizes the August 24 weekly GitHub Copilot updates, covering shared agent sessions in Slack and Microsoft Teams, the Copilot app’s new Customize experience (including MCP servers and plugins), Copilot CLI session and permission defaults, and IDE improvements across VS Code, JetBrains, and Visual Studio.

Yo-Lei Chen demonstrates how to build a full-stack app around SQL Server using GitHub Copilot in VS Code, from database schema design and query assistance through to generating backend code and wiring up REST or GraphQL endpoints.

junjieli’s August 2026 roundup for Foundry Toolkit for VS Code covers new end-to-end agent-building workflows: improved “Create Agent” entry points, centrally managed MCP toolboxes, preview Agent-to-Agent connections, user-scoped hosted sessions, and deeper run inspection with latency and token breakdowns.

Allison announces generally available improvements to GitHub Issues label management, aimed at making issue triage faster in repositories with large label sets.

Allison announces updates to GitHub Copilot code review, including support for automatically requested reviews on bot-authored pull requests (including Copilot cloud agent), removal of previous large-PR size limits, and new resolution-reason options to provide feedback when closing Copilot review comments.

Allison announces that GitHub Classroom has been deprecated and decommissioned as of August 28, 2026, and outlines what happens to existing GitHub accounts, repositories, and organizations created for Classroom, plus which Classroom data will be permanently deleted under GitHub’s retention policies.

Allison announces a GitHub Actions retention change taking effect October 1, 2026: checks, workflow runs, and statuses will be deleted according to the same retention setting used for artifacts and logs (default 90 days), instead of being kept for 400+ days.

DevClass reviews Kubernetes v1.37 (Garhwal), focusing on production-readiness changes like the Metrics API reaching GA, upcoming removals of kube-dns, IPVS mode in kube-proxy, and cgroup v1, plus new features around autoscaling, watch cache behavior, and stricter YAML conventions via KYAML.

Kristen Womack and Jeffrey C. summarize the August 2026 Azure Developer CLI (azd) releases, including the GA extension framework, new container deployment options for Azure Functions, breaking command/telemetry terminology changes, and a long list of provisioning, pipeline, and interactive UX fixes.

Allison announces a GitHub moderation improvement that lets you automatically close all open issues, discussions, and pull requests authored by a user when you block them in a personal account or organization.