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Start with the GitHub Copilot CLI beginner’s guide, learn to build an agent skill in VS Code, or troubleshoot with the VS Code reset walkthrough.

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Deploy Logic Apps Standard to Azure from VS Code

by Stephen W. Thomas | Oct 20, 2026

Move your local Logic Apps Standard project into Azure. I walk through the hosting plan, storage, a basic portal workflow, and deployment from VS Code, with the settings and cleanup checks that help you avoid overwritten workflows and unwanted charges.

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Copilot Code and Managed Runtime: The Developer Handoff

by Stephen W. Thomas | Oct 13, 2026

Copilot Code lets business teams build internal apps. Developers still need to test, maintain, and extend them. Learn how Copilot Managed Runtime fits into that handoff, what Microsoft announced for Home and Autopilot, and which features remain in preview.

Conceptual illustration of API requests passing through Azure API Management and a Jev decision, with allowed and rejected paths.

Jev in Azure API Management: Validate and Route Requests

by Stephen W. Thomas | Sep 29, 2026

Call Jev from an Azure API Management policy to evaluate requests before they reach a backend. This demo covers a simple image-prompt check, a multi-question filter, the thresholds that control each flow, and when the logic belongs in Azure Functions instead.

Conceptual illustration of Jev receiving a document and returning Choice, Score, and Noul answers.

Jev by TypeSafe: Speed, Cost, and Three Practical Uses

by Stephen W. Thomas | Sep 20, 2026

Jev handles the small decisions that often end up inside an LLM call. Explore TypeSafe’s pricing and speed claims, the Choice, Score, and Noul primitives, and three practical uses: model routing, checking generated answers, and selecting values from candidates found in code.

Illustration of a laptop and workflow nodes beneath the words Logic Apps Standard: Build, Run, Debug Locally.

Build and Debug Logic Apps Standard Locally in VS Code

by Stephen W. Thomas | Sep 15, 2026

Build your first Logic Apps Standard workflow on your own computer. Install the VS Code extension, create a request-and-response workflow, test it with Postman, inspect local run history, and pause execution at a breakpoint using the example from my video.