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About Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses. His latest book, Building APIs with .NET, is now available wherever you buy your books. Liberty is a Senior SW Engineer for CNH and he was a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a Microsoft MVP.

James Montemagno on Vibe Coding

James is welcomed back to Yet Another Podcast, this time to talk about Vibe Coding with Microsoft’s AI tools. Video https://developer.microsoft.com/blog/complete-beginners-guide-to-vibe-coding-an-app-in-5-minutes https://jamesmontemagno.github.io/podstats https://www.vscodepodcast.com https://www.vscodepodcast.com/6

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Lance McCarthy on CoPilot & MCP Servers

Lance takes us through what MCP is, why it is important, and how to work with it. Video You can reach Lance here:https://bsky.app/profile/lance.bostonhttps://twitter.com/l_anceMHttps://dvlup.com

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What a fortnight! VS2026 and iOS26

In the past short while, we’ve seen the release of Visual Studio 2026 and iOS-26. They both have great improvements, though if I had to choose, the one that is making the biggest impact on me is, of course, Visual … Continue reading

Posted in Essentials, iOS, iPhone, Visual Studio | 377 Comments

Scott Hunter

Conversation with Scott Hunter (VP Microsoft) about Visual Studio, CoPilot Agents, MCP, Azure, Azure Functions and much more. Watch on YouTube Note: ZenCastr ate Scott’s links, but you can get started at https://learn.microsoft.com

Posted in Azure, C#, CoPilot, Learning, Microsoft, Programming, Tools and Utilities, Visual Studio, Visual Studio | Tagged | 357 Comments

Visual Studio 2026! with Mads Kristensen

Visual Studio 2026 is here. Mads takes us through the highlights View this podcast on YouTube

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Celebrating 15 years of Yet Another Podcast

Today we are celebrating 15 years of commercial-free podcasting on . NET-related issues. Thank you for your ongoing interest and support. Stay tuned for a very special podcast on Visual Studio coming sometime next week.

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Mads K (Microsoft) on Visual Studio and VSCode

Mads K of Microsoft talks about the targeting of Visual Studio and VSCode. Towards the end, I ask him about a few of his favorite plugins. View this podcast on YouTube

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Jeff Fritz on .NET Aspire and CoPilot Agents

Jeff Fritz (Microsoft) joins me to talk about .NET Aspire, CoPilot Agents and Vibe programming. This is a show not to miss; his enthusiasm is catching and his knowledge is astonishing.

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Video: Visual Toolbox: Git in Visual Studio

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Richie Bonilla and Forage AI Email

Forage is an AI email assistant that sorts your mail into categories, provides a summary once or twice a day (your choice) and summarizes newsletters into bullet points. I talk with Richie Bonilla (CEO and co-founder)* about his startup, what … Continue reading

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CoPilot Agents

Prepare to have your mind blown. Copilot Agents are powerful AI tools for Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. Used to CoPilot? — you ain’t seen nothing yet! James Montemagno and Burke Holland of Microsoft discuss how to get it, … Continue reading

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Mike Kistler (Microsoft) on OpenAPI

OpenAPI is the framework of choice for documenting APIs OpenAPI support in ASP.NET Core API appshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/overview?view=aspnetcore-9.0 Generate OpenAPI documents at build-timehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/aspnetcore-openapi?view=aspnetcore-9.0&tabs=visual-studio%2Cvisual-studio-code#generate-openapi-documents-at-build-time The project file property to set the directory where the OpenAPI should be saved is “OpenApiDocumentsDirectory” and it is documented here:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/aspnetcore-openapi?view=aspnetcore-9.0&tabs=visual-studio%2Cvisual-studio-code#modifying-the-output-directory-of-the-generated-open-api-file This section contains … Continue reading

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