Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

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At embedded world, on the DigiKey booth, Lucy Barnard speaks with Marta Barbero at Arduino, about the new Arduino product announcement.

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Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution.