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Microsoft improved testing with the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for Visual Studio Code as part of the regular monthly update to the super-popular code editor.
10/09/2023
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Standing for .NET Multi-platform App UI, .NET MAUI has been described by the company as the "evolution of Xamarin.Forms" with said evolution including the ability to create desktop apps in addition to the traditional mobile targets of Xamarin, iOS and Android.
10/06/2023
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Microsoft announced the general availability of its C# Dev Kit, a Visual Studio Code extension that adds functionality missing in an existing C# tool -- functionality that comes with for-pay licensing for organizations.
10/05/2023
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Microsoft detailed how a Copilot AI assistant and other advanced tech serves to bolster its low-code Power Platform, which includes components to help "ordinary business users" or "citizen developers" create applications, web sites and more.
10/03/2023
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Third-party dev toolmaker Syncfusion updated its flagship .NET-based offering with new functionality for cross-platform development.
10/03/2023
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says the technique is easy to tune, works well with small datasets and produces highly interpretable predictions, but there are also trade-off cons.
10/02/2023
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The goal of the miniseries is to provide an insider's snapshot look at some of the people who contribute to shaping the Visual Studio IDE every day.
09/29/2023
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Microsoft today announced its "Microsoft Build of OpenJDK 21," taking advantage of new features and functionality in Java 21.
09/28/2023
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Along with today's new AI-powered Windows 11 update come new goodies for developers, including a new edition of Dev Home, a preview offering described as a "control center" providing coding-focused features and functionality.
09/26/2023
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The latest update to Python in Visual Studio Code includes a new extension for Python formatting that was contributed by a member of the open source community.
09/25/2023
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Developers commenting on a Microsoft post about performance improvements in the upcoming .NET 8 demanded the company end Visual Studio 2022's dependency on the old .NET Framework.
09/22/2023
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"The' tl;dr' is that we rewrote it (mostly) in Rust which compiles to WebAssembly for VS Code or the web, and to native binaries for Python."
09/21/2023
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GitHub Copilot Chat has taken another step toward general availability, as GitHub announced a beta offering previously accessible only by team/business customers is now available to individuals.
09/20/2023
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Creating any kind of software application is difficult enough, but in the cloud things only get harder when complexities like microservices, distributed teams and so on are thrown into the mix.
09/19/2023
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GPR works well with small datasets and generates a metric of confidence of a predicted result, but it's moderately complex and the results are not easily interpretable, says Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research in this full-code tutorial.
09/15/2023
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With at least 20 main enhancements explained in detail in the announcement post for Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 2, Microsoft's Mads Kristensen has boiled down his favorites.
09/14/2023
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Going beyond the many "hello world" presentations out there, expert developer and presenter Chris Klug specializes in sharing his higher-level knowledge on topics including Microsoft's ASP.NET Core framework for web development.
09/14/2023
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Microsoft shipped the first release candidates for its .NET 8 offerings, including the main framework, the .NET MAUI evolution of Xamarin.Forms and the ASP.NET Core web-dev components, not to mention Entity Framework (EF8) for data devs.
09/12/2023
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One new feature of the tool is the ability to create workspaces from a natural language description.
09/11/2023
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Uno Platform shipped a new release that adds .NET MAUI embedding, fresh on the heels of helping Microsoft completely revamp its Windows Community Toolkit.
09/08/2023
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With software development's AI-powered future recently announcing itself, putting AI to work right now in your apps is a good way to position yourself for that future today.
09/07/2023
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Visual Studio Magazine readers for the 29th year have identified their favorite development tools used in the Microsoft-centric developer space in the 2023 Reader's Choice Awards.
09/07/2023
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Microsoft upgraded its .NET Upgrade Assistant tool with improvements to .NET MAUI functionality and other new features as it gets ready to ship .NET 8 next month.
09/06/2023
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The main advantages of KNNR are simplicity and interpretability, says Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research in presenting this full-code, step-by-step tutorial.
09/05/2023
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After Microsoft this week angered developers by giving up on Visual Studio for Mac and recommending alternative replacements, many of those devs have overwhelmingly voiced support for something else: the Rider IDE from JetBrains.
09/01/2023
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The retirement announcement drew much developer ire among a whopping 96 comments, along with fears that Microsoft may give up on .NET MAUI and maybe even Visual Studio itself.
08/31/2023
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The IDE for years suffered from performance and reliability problems that the dev team just couldn't overcome.
08/30/2023