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Amanda Silver

@amandaksilver.bsky.social
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Head of Product for Developer Division @Microsoft @Code @VisualStudio @TypeScript @dotnet @JavaAtMicrosoft @Azure @AzureDevOps @OpenAtMicrosoft Engineering

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Amanda Silver @amandaksilver.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🚀 VS Code 1.102 is here! 🧠 Smarter. 🎯 More personalized. 🌐 More open. Building the future of dev tools together. 🔗
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June 2025 (version 1.102)
Learn what is new in the Visual Studio Code June 2025 Release (1.102)
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Amanda Silver @amandaksilver.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🚀 VS Code now supports the full Model Context Protocol spec! From tools to prompts, resources, sampling, & a new security-first auth model—MCP is now a complete standard for AI agent integration. Read the full post: aka.ms/AAwoaxm #VSCode #AI #MCP
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The Complete MCP Experience: Full Specification Support in VS Code
VS Code now supports the complete Model Context Protocol specification, including authorization, prompts, resources, and sampling.
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Amanda Silver @amandaksilver.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
At #MSBuild this month, @mariorod1, @den.dev and I showed how agentic DevOps is remaking how you build and manage software – from ideation to production. In this post, walk you through how we built Octopets, our demo app. aka.ms/AAwfap8
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Agentic DevOps in action: Reimagining every phase of the developer lifecycle
What if your dev tools could take the first pass at a feature, file a bug report, propose a fix—and deploy it? With Agentic DevOps and GitHub Copilot, they can. Here's how agents will reshape every st...
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Amanda Silver @amandaksilver.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🐘💻 PostgreSQL just got a glow-up in VS Code! Now you can query, design, and manage your DBs without leaving your favorite editor. It’s like giving your SQL superpowers a cozy new home. Check it out 👉 aka.ms/AAwdd7v #PostgreSQL #VSCode #DevTools
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Announcing a new IDE for PostgreSQL in VS Code from Microsoft | Microsoft Community Hub
We are excited to announce the public preview of the brand-new PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), designed to simplify PostgreSQL...
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Amanda Silver @amandaksilver.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
GitHub Repos + Copilot + Azure DevOps = 🚀 Copilot's agentic powers are best when your code lives in GitHub. Migrating from Azure DevOps to GitHub is even easier - with tooling, guidance, geo expansion & better Azure Boards / Pipeline integration. aka.ms/AAwbh44
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Azure DevOps with GitHub Repositories - Your path to Agentic AI
GitHub Copilot has evolved beyond a coding assistant in the IDE into an agentic teammate – providing actionable feedback on pull requests, fixing bugs and implementing new features, creating pull requ...
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Amanda Silver @amandaksilver.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Assign a GitHub issue to Copilot and watch it spin up a secure dev environment, write code, push commits, and open a PR. Copilot has gone from peer programmer to pair programmer, handling the boring stuff so you can stay in the flow. #GitHubCopilot #DevTools #codingagent #MSBuild
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Amanda Silver @amandaksilver.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Today at #MSBuild, we’re unveiling a new era: Agentic DevOps. From #GitHubCopilot #coding agent to #AzureSREagent and #Copilot app modernization, you can ship faster, reduce tech debt, and secure your stack. This is software development reimagined. aka.ms/AAwbfai
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Agentic DevOps: Evolving software development with GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Azure | Microsoft Azure Blog
Agentic DevOps is the next evolution in the software development lifecycle. Read how these AI agents help developers accelerate delivery and stay focused on high-impact work while remaining in control...
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Amanda Silver @amandaksilver.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Imagine spinning up a squad of teammates— to fix bugs, write docs, and ship small features —so you can stay in flow. From ideation to production, agents work with you to optimize every phase of the SDLC. You’re still at the helm—just with superpowers. ⚡
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Amanda Silver @amandaksilver.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🎉 50 MILLION developers! Every line of code, every late-night debug, every “Aha!” moment—you made this happen. Visual Studio & VS Code are what they are because of YOU. Here’s to building the future together! msft.it/6041Sw9xf
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Celebrating 50 Million Developers: The Journey of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code
Today, I’m thrilled to share that we’ve hit an incredible milestone together: 50 million developers are actively using Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code each month. That’s 50 million of you writing...
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Amanda Silver @amandaksilver.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
.NET 10 Preview 4 is out. We've got enterprise-ready enhancements to ASP.NET Core, diagnostics, and performance. Build scalable, secure, and modern apps with confidence. Explore what’s new: aka.ms/dotnet/10/pr... #dotnet #enterprisedev
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.NET 10 Preview 4 · dotnet core · Discussion #9886
Today, we are excited to announce the fourth preview release of .NET 10 with enhancements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more. Check out the full ...
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Amanda Silver @amandaksilver.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Today we announced GitHub Copilot FREE coming to all editors. No trial. No subscription. No credit card. All you need is a #GitHub account. Big thanks to the scores of folks across GitHub and Microsoft who worked to bring this to developers everywhere. Let’s build! aka.ms/AAts16i
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Announcing a free GitHub Copilot for VS Code
Announcing a free plan for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code.
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Amanda Silver @amandaksilver.bsky.social · 23/05/2023
#MicrosoftDevBox will be generally available in July 2023! We can’t wait to see more developers leave behind the challenges of setting up and maintaining physical workstations to focus on writing the code only they can write! aka.ms/AAkx2ny
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Amanda Silver @amandaksilver.bsky.social · 18/05/2023
Excited to see what you think of Visual Studio 2022 17.7 Preview 1, which includes a multi-branch graph visualization, a refined all-in-one search experience, and file compare in Solution Explorer! Get the full deets here: aka.ms/BlogPost-17.7P
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Amanda Silver @amandaksilver.bsky.social · 08/05/2023
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