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Uno Platform has taken its 'Hot Design' feature to public beta, extending the 'Hot Reload' paradigm with functionality to visually edit and refine a running app in real-time.
10h ago
New VS Code Release Polishes Experimental GitHub Copilot Agent Mode -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Continuing the journey from 'AI pair programmer' to 'autonomous peer programmer' to, eventually, just 'AI programmer,' no human coding needed, just supervision.
on Thu, 10PM
Semantic Kernel Agent Framework Graduates to Release Candidate -- Visual Studio Magazine
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With agentic AI now firmly established as a key component of modern software development, Microsoft graduated its Semantic Kernel Agent Framework to Release Candidate 1 status.
on Tue, 8PM
TypeScript 5.8 Improves Type Checking, Conditional Feature Delayed to 5.9 -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Microsoft shipped TypeScript 5.8 with improved type checking in some scenarios, but thorny problems caused the dev team to delay related work to the next release.
on Tue, 7PM
Top 10 GitHub Copilot Extensions, Led by Docker and PerplexityAI -- Visual Studio Magazine
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They work in GitHub.com, the Visual Studio IDE and VS Code, where developers can access various services, perform actions and generate files without leaving those dev environments.
on Feb 26
C# Dev Kit Previews .NET Aspire Orchestration -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Microsoft's dev team has been busy updating the C# Dev Kit, a Visual Studio Code extension that enhances the C# development experience by providing tools for managing, debugging, and editing C# projects.
on Feb 26
Microsoft Ships First .NET 10 Preview -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Microsoft shipped .NET 10 Preview 1, introducing a raft of improvements and fixes across performance, libraries, and the developer experience.
on Feb 26
Cloud-Focused .NET Aspire 9.1 Released -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Along with .NET 10 Preview 1, Microsoft released.NET Aspire 9.1, the latest update to its opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building resilient, observable, and configurable cloud-native applications with .NET.
on Feb 26
VS Code Copilot Previews New GPT-4o AI Code Completion Model -- Visual Studio Magazine
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The 4o upgrade includes additional training on more than 275,000 high-quality public repositories in over 30 popular programming languages, said Microsoft-owned GitHub, which created the original 'AI pair programmer' years ago.
on Feb 19
Microsoft's Rust Embrace Continues with Azure SDK Beta -- Visual Studio Magazine
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'Rust's strong type system and ownership model help prevent common programming errors such as null pointer dereferencing and buffer overflows, leading to more secure and stable code.'
on Feb 19
Xcode IDE from Microsoft Archrival Apple Gets Copilot AI -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Just after expanding the reach of its Copilot AI coding assistant to the open-source Eclipse IDE, Microsoft showcased how it's going even further, providing details about a preview version for the Xcode IDE from archrival Apple.
on Feb 19
Microsoft Previews Copilot AI for Open-Source Eclipse IDE -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Catering to Java jockeys, Microsoft is yet again expanding the sprawling reach of its Copilot-branded AI assistants, previewing a coding tool for the open-source Eclipse IDE.
on Feb 14
Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 Ships: 'Meet GitHub Copilot Free' -- Visual Studio Magazine
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New GitHub Copilot AI features range from AI-enhanced feature search to edits across files, new shortcuts and expansion of slash commands, along with much more.
on Feb 12
VS Code Copilot Gets Closer to Tab, Tab, Tab Coding -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Microsoft is previewing new AI tech that predicts next edits, allowing devs to just Tab to accept them and keep on going.
on Feb 10
GitHub Previews Agentic AI in VS Code Copilot -- Visual Studio Magazine
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GitHub announced a raft of improvements to its Copilot AI in the Visual Studio Code editor, including a new 'agent mode' in preview that lets developers use the AI technology to write code faster and more accurately.
on Feb 7
Uno Platform Wants Microsoft to Improve .NET WebAssembly in Two Ways -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Uno Platform, a third-party dev tooling specialist that caters to .NET developers, published a report on the state of WebAssembly, addressing some shortcomings in the .NET implementation it would like to see Microsoft address.
on Feb 5
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While some organizations are restricting employee usage of the new open source DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company due to data collection concerns, Microsoft has taken a different approach.
on Jan 30
TypeScript 5.8 Beta Speeds Program Loads, Updates -- Visual Studio Magazine
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'TypeScript 5.8 introduces a number of optimizations that can both improve the time to build up a program, and also to update a program based on a file change in either --watch mode or editor scenarios.'
on Jan 30
AI Toolkit for VS Code Now Lets You 'Bring Your Own Model' -- Visual Studio Magazine
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'AI Toolkit extension for VS code now supports external local models via Ollama. It has also added support remote hosted models using API keys for OpenAI, Google and Anthropic.'
on Jan 28
Visual Studio Copilot Improves Feature Search, Shortcuts, Slash Commands -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Microsoft's Visual Studio dev team has been working on the next release of its flagship IDE, Visual Studio 2022 v17.13, with an emphasis on improving the GitHub Copilot AI-powered coding assistant.
on Jan 27
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As Chinese AI tech shakes up the entire industry with new breakthroughs, a new AI-powered IDE from a Beijing firm is flying under the radar, based on the same tech that powers Visual Studio Code and many other code editors.
on Jan 27
Microsoft Duels JetBrains with Same-Day AI Coding Moves -- Visual Studio Magazine
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In an IDE AI update, this week we see JetBrains introducing a new coding agent called Junie just as Microsoft unveiled a free tier for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio.
on Jan 25
Microsoft Revamps Fledgling AutoGen Framework for Agentic AI -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Only at v0.4, Microsoft's AutoGen framework for agentic AI -- the hottest new trend in AI development -- has already undergone a complete revamp, going to an asynchronous, event-driven architecture.
on Jan 21
Building Blazor Applications -- Visual Studio Magazine
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A trio of Blazor experts will conduct a full-day workshop for devs to learn everything about the tech a a March developer conference in Las Vegas keynoted by Microsoft execs and featuring many Microsoft devs.
on Jan 17
IDE Irony: Coding Errors Cause 'Critical' Vulnerability in Visual Studio -- Visual Studio Magazine
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In a larger-than-normal Patch Tuesday, Microsoft warned of a 'critical' vulnerability in Visual Studio that should be fixed immediately if automatic patching isn't enabled, ironically caused by coding errors.
on Jan 17
Microsoft Execs to Tackle AI and Cloud in Dev Conference Keynotes -- Visual Studio Magazine
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AI unsurprisingly is all over keynotes that Microsoft execs will helm to kick off the Visual Studio Live! developer conference in Las Vegas, March 10-14, which the company described as 'a must-attend event.'
on Jan 14
Copilot Agentic AI Dev Environment Opens Up to All -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Microsoft removed waitlist restrictions for some of its most advanced GenAI tech, Copilot Workspace, recently made available as a technical preview.
on Jan 14
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Having introduced its Modern Web Application (MWA) pattern for Java developers late last year, Microsoft is now promoting the cloud-centric concept further by highlighting the benefits of the 'Strangler Fig' approach.
on Jan 10
VS Code Python Devs Get 'Full' Language Server Mode for Pylance -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Serving tens of millions of developers, Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code shipped a new release with three major new features, including a 'full' language server mode for Pylance, which provides language-specific 'smarts,' including IntelliSense.
on Jan 9
Diving Deep into .NET MAUI -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Ever since someone figured out that fiddling bits results in source code, developers have sought one codebase for all types of apps on all platforms, with Microsoft's latest attempt to further that effort being .NET MAUI.
on Dec 18
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The free plan restricts the number of completions, chat requests and access to AI models, being suitable for occasional users and small projects.
on Dec 18
Copilot AI Boosts Abound in New VS Code v1.96 -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Microsoft improved on its new 'Copilot Edit' functionality in the latest release of Visual Studio Code, v1.96, its open-source based code editor that has become the most popular in the world according to many surveys.
on Dec 17
TypeScript Tops New JetBrains 'Language Promise Index' -- Visual Studio Magazine
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In its latest annual developer ecosystem report, JetBrains introduced a new 'Language Promise Index' topped by Microsoft's TypeScript programming language.
on Dec 11
OpenSilver 3.1 Unveils Drag-and-Drop XAML Designer for VS Code -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Claiming an industry first, Userware announced a drag-and-drop XAML designer for use in VS Code, coming with OpenSilver 3.1, the latest iteration of the open-source implementation of Microsoft's long-deprecated and oft-mourned rich client development platform, Silverlight.
on Dec 11
Visual Studio Dev Vexed by Copilot's Obtuse 'Responsible AI' Refusal -- Visual Studio Magazine
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No matter what, some systems simply won't divulge exactly what in the current conversation caused them to balk, simply pointing to vague policies and generic guidance.
on Dec 10
On Blazor Component Reusability - From Day 0 -- Visual Studio Magazine
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'We want to try to design from Day One, even Day Zero, with reusability in mind,' says Blazor expert Allen Conway in imparting his expertise to an audience of hundreds in an online tech event on Tuesday.
on Dec 6
Build Your First AI Applications with Local AI -- Visual Studio Magazine
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'AI right now feels like a vast space which can be hard to jump into,' says Craig Loewen, a senior product manager at Microsoft who is helping devs unsure about making that first daunting leap.
on Dec 5
Visual Studio's AI Future: Copilot .NET Upgrades and More -- Visual Studio Magazine
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At this week's Microsoft Ignite conference, the Visual Studio team showed off a future AI-powered IDE that will leverage GitHub Copilot for legacy app .NET upgrades, along with several more cutting-edge features.
on Nov 23
PowerShell Gets AI-ified in 'AI Shell' Preview -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Eschewing the term 'Copilot,' Microsoft introduced a new AI-powered tool for PowerShell called 'AI Shell,' available in preview.
on Nov 22
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GitHub says new research proves its Copilot AI tool can improve code quality, following earlier reports that said it boosts developer productivity -- and has a retort for contrarian studies.
on Nov 22
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The brand-new Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 lets devs specify the AI model they want to use with the baked-in GitHub Copilot, but some are clamoring for more options, such as the latest/greatest Claude 3.5 Sonnet model from Anthropic that is available in VS Code.
on Nov 21
SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric in Preview for Faster AI Apps -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Microsoft's early embrace of advanced AI in its dev tooling continues apace with the new public preview of SQL database in Microsoft Fabric, the company's analytics/data platform.
on Nov 19
Microsoft Seeks to Sort & Simplify its Agentic AI Dev Story -- Visual Studio Magazine
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The company will infuse multi-agent runtime tech developed in its AutoGen research project into its production-ready Semantic Kernel SDK, both open source.
on Nov 18
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Microsoft just shipped Visual Studio 2022 v17.12, focusing on enhancing developer experiences specifically for .NET 9 projects and introducing new AI productivity features. This update incorporates numerous developer-requested enhancements aimed at simplifying workflows and improving overall...
on Nov 16
Uno Platform Unveils 'Hot Design' Tool for Cross-Platform .NET Apps -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Uno Platform provided a new take on visual designers for .NET app development, claiming a breakthrough that changes code at runtime rather than the design stage.
on Nov 16
In .NET 9 Debut, Microsoft Focuses on .NET Aspire, AI -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Microsoft shipped .NET 9 today with the dev team highlighting .NET Aspire and AI in a keynote and follow-on sessions of the livestreamed launch event.
on Nov 16
Microsoft Previews Copilot AI in SQL Server Management Studio -- Visual Studio Magazine
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In announcing SSMS 21 Preview 1 this week, Microsoft revealed Copilot AI for the tool is also being previewed, privately.
on Nov 8
DBSCAN Clustering and Anomaly Detection Using C# -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of data clustering and anomaly detection using the DBSCAN (Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise) algorithm. Compared to other anomaly detection systems based on data clustering, DBSCAN...
on Nov 7
Microsoft Highlights Third-Party Open-Source '.NET Smart Components' -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Microsoft has long acknowledged third-party vendor contributions to dev tooling ecosystems like Blazor and is now doing the same for its newly open-sourced .NET Smart Components.
on Oct 24
Microsoft's Stalled UWP Project Supports .NET 9 to Help WinUI 3 Migration -- Visual Studio Magazine
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The company urges devs to switch to Windows App SDK and WinUI 3 because UWP is no longer under active development.
on Sep 20