Utkarsh Shigihalli

Microsoft MVP | Developer | Blogs on DevOps, Azure, GitHub and extensibility | Works at @Avanade | Tweets are my own

[Utkarsh Shigihalli @onlyutkarsh]

So proud to add one more disc to my MVP award today! #mvpbuzz

[Marcel Lupo | Microsoft DevOps MVP | 🇬🇧 🇿🇦 @pwd9000]

Hosting our next DevOps GitHub meetup in Brighton on Wed 29/04/26 at 18:00, alongside fellow MVP @onlyutkarsh We’ll cover AI-assisted coding with GitHub Copilot, practical workflows in #VSCode + CLI & real-world use cases.

Join us: https://t.co/bqOnQVpdJD

#GitHubCopilotDevDays

[Microsoft MVP Communities @MVPAward]

🎉 Big milestone for #MicrosoftAI!

Azure AI Foundry Models + Security Copilot are now ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certified ✅

This global AI standard means more trust, transparency & responsible innovation.

🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/tuN6H3UgeS

#MVPBuzz #AI #Azure #MicrosoftLearn

[Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi]

At this year’s Chelsea Flower Show Raspberry Pi 5 and Hailo AI worked together to automatically recognise and record photos of bees and butterflies.

Embedded sensors in trees also prompted conversations with visitors about each tree’s health via an app.

Oh… and this Intelligent Garden by Avanade also won a gold award for Best Construction 🥇 🍾 🏆

https://t.co/zb6h8unD5H

[Thomas Dohmke @ashtom]

We promised, we delivered. The GitHub Copilot Chat client for VS Code is now open source under the MIT license. This means, you can:

🔍 Explore the code on GitHub
🛠️ Open PRs, file issues & contribute
💬 See what prompts/context we send to LLMs
🤖 Use Copilot agent mode to implement your own features and bugfixes

And this is just the beginning. Next, we’ll refactor components of Copilot into the heart of VS Code.

Open source is the largest team sport on earth. Together, let’s keep winning! 🥇

[Amanda Silver @amandaksilver]

🚀 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: https://t.co/hhBUBoBslj

#VSCode #AI #MCP

[Visual Studio Code @code]

🎉 Bruno Capuano (@elbruno) is celebrating the 50 million devs using #VisualStudio and #VSCode by spotlighting his favorite extension: AI Toolkit for VS Code➖empowering developers and AI engineers to build, test, and deploy intelligent applications using generative AI models.

Learn more about how else we're celebrating this awesome achievement: https://t.co/4KLx52Wlbl

...and keep the celebration rolling by sharing your favorite extension and be sure to use #VS50M and #sweepstakes for a chance to win a limited-edition T-shirt. 👕 (18+. Ends 7/6/25. See blog for rules.)

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Today, at Build we showed you how we are building the open agentic web. It is reshaping every layer of the stack, and our goal is to help every dev build apps and agents that empower people and orgs everywhere. Here are 5 big things we announced today:

[ErikEJ @ErikEJ]

You can use my free T-SQL Analyzer command line tool to check for over 140 anti-patterns in your SQL scripts directly in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
#dotnet #sqlserver #databases
https://t.co/P5ypLqBgnW

[Visual Studio Code @code]

Enhance your terminal experience in @code by enabling this one setting ⚙️

The terminal.integrated.suggest.enabled setting, currently in preview, surfaces rich completion support for your terminal.

[Visual Studio Code @code]

Announcing GitHub Copilot Free!

A new free tier for GitHub Copilot, available for everyone today in @code

No trial. No subscription. No credit card required.

Learn more in our blog: https://t.co/k3S9M9xefa

[Utkarsh Shigihalli @onlyutkarsh]

Great news! Rider and WebStorm Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use | The JetBrains Blog https://t.co/Du693TTiZd

#dev #jetbrains #rider

[Karen Payne MVP @KarenPayneMVP]

SQL Formatter Visual Studio extension
By Mads Kristensen.

https://t.co/W0reyowIm6

This is a welcome edition to Visual Studio.

Since SQL-Server is what I use 99 percent of the time this is what I tested.

How did it do? Excellent.

I liked the option for comma last rather than comma first.

How does the extension compare to Red Gate's SQL-Prompt formatter? Pretty close.

Is it perfect? At least for me, good enough and its free.

The only way the extension can be improved is for developers to try it out and leave a review.

Hopefully at some point the extension becomes part of Visual Studio.

Wish list
💡An option to remove square brackets.

[Lee Englestone 💡🧠👨‍💻🚀 @LeeEnglestone]

We've just launched https://t.co/TEAWhiFwNF (today!)

It celebrates the increasing use of AI by sharing over 250 use cases of AI across various industries and different AI technologies.

Not super detailed yet, we're going for breadth and then later depth.

I'd love to get peoples feedback on how we can make it better, or industries and use cases we've missed. Thanks all!

#UseCasesForAI

[Utkarsh Shigihalli @onlyutkarsh]

Write wiki in Azure DevOps? Try my new #vscode extension - Preview your markdown files in the familiar format of Azure DevOps Wiki, right from within Visual Studio Code! #VSCode #DevOps #Markdown #azuredevops

https://t.co/Qgjuvt5PkO

[Utkarsh Shigihalli @onlyutkarsh]

+20k downloads but only 8 genuine reviews on the marketplace page. Shows open source work is purely driven by developer passion and demand for free software overshadows contributions and any kind of feedback.. #opensource #vscode

[Utkarsh Shigihalli @onlyutkarsh]

🌟Get the latest update of my VSCode extension! This release adds new features including support for Git signingkey, profile deletion, seamless migration of your existing profiles to new formats, and fixes many critical bugs.

https://t.co/hz66tyQjk3

#vscode #developers #GitHub

[Utkarsh Shigihalli @onlyutkarsh]

🌟Get the latest update of my VSCode extension! This release adds new features including support for Git signingkey, profile deletion, seamless migration of your existing profiles to new formats, and fixes many critical bugs.

https://t.co/hz66tyQjk3

#vscode #developers #GitHub

[Utkarsh Shigihalli @onlyutkarsh]

I built a new website for my WordStash iOS app using @astrodotbuild and managed to get a perfect SEO score! Loving it 🥳

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI's new leadership team and working with them. And we’re extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success.

[Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper) @Pixel_Robots]

Harness the power of scaling using @kedaorg add-on for AKS which is now generally available.
https://t.co/UbRynmvgSP

#AKS #Azure #Kubernetes #k8s #CloudNative #KEDA

[Utkarsh Shigihalli @onlyutkarsh]

The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team launches Radius, a new open application platform for the cloud

https://t.co/NrlXLCYrCF

#microsoft