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InfoWorld

A better way to work with SQL Server

It’s time to switch to a new development tool for SQL Server and Azure SQL. Here’s how to get started with the MSSQL ...
Visual Studio Magazine

The Next Generation of Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio

Simona Liao and Leah Tran, product managers at Microsoft, discuss how GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio has evolved from a code completion tool into an agent-driven development workflow -- and share ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Special Embrace? VS Code Adapts to Claude Code's Ecosystem

Microsoft is increasingly treating Claude as a first-class option across dev tooling and AI products. For one prominent example of that trend, Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor is extending Claude ...
IEEE

On the Difficulty to Beat the First Linear Programming Bound for Binary Codes

Abstract: The first linear programming bound is the best known asymptotic upper bound for binary codes, for a certain subrange of distances. Starting from the work of Friedman and Tillich (2005), ...