Tips & Tricks to Save Your Claude Tokens While Building Apps in Visual Studio
If you're pairing Claude with Visual Studio or VS Code for day-to-day .NET development, you've probably noticed how fast tokens burn when you let the model see (and regenerate) more than it needs to. Token spend isn't just a cost line — it's latency, context dilution, and lower-quality edits once you're past t...
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One programmer, one business analyst, and several fullstack "AI co-developers" — all running through GitHub Copilot with Claude models. Here is the setup, from .md configuration files to team workflow, for both greenfield and brownfield .NET projects.
Prerequisites
Copilot Business/Enterprise license (coding agent, code review, org-level instructions).
A .NET repository (e.g., ASP.NET...
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A strong presentation opening sets the tone for the entire session—especially when you’re delivering training as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Below is a complete, structured article you can use or adapt for your next class or workshop. Yes, presentation is boring! better to watch the cat sing a song. .Let's make it better again!
Start with Ice breaking
A good icebreaker warms...
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Every engineering leader running GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio has asked some version of the same question: "Is this actually making us faster, or just making us feel faster?" Lines of code went up. Commit counts went up. But so did code churn, review backlog, and — in some teams — production incidents. The old productivity dashboard doesn't tell you which story you're living. H...
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