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Publish Visual Studio Marketplace extensions securely with Trusted Publishing

Visual Studio Marketplace now offers Trusted Publishing, which lets VS Code and Visual Studio extensions be published from GitHub Actions or Azure Pipelines without a long-lived personal access token. Publishing uses federated identity instead, so there is no secret to store or rotate. Extension authors who automate releases should review the setup and migration steps.

PostgreSQL extension for VS Code: explore, query and troubleshoot

Microsoft's PostgreSQL extension brings connecting, browsing schemas, writing and running SQL, and asking GitHub Copilot about the connected database into VS Code. The post walks through four workflows, from exploring a first table to reviewing a performance recommendation. It is a practical guide for .NET developers who work against PostgreSQL and want to stay in their editor.