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"Imagine this: code explanations, debugging assistance, unit test suggestions, and more right in the IDE."
07/20/2023
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Third-party .NET UX/UI dev tooling vendor Infragistics touted customized controls for Blazor and Web Components in the latest release of its flagship offering for desktop, web and mobile app designers and developers.
07/19/2023
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research offers a full-code, step-by-step tutorial for this technique, especially useful when there is limited training data.
07/18/2023
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"We're updating the Extension Manager to make it easier for you to find great extensions from the Visual Studio Marketplace and to make managing and keeping your existing extensions up to date a more seamless experience."
07/17/2023
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Syncfusion shipped its latest release, Essential Studio 2023 Volume 2, bringing a variety of new controls and enhancements for supported mobile, web, and desktop platforms across a diverse range of targets including .NET MAUI, Blazor and more.
07/14/2023
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Userware is using vestiges of the long-gone and sorely missed Microsoft Silverlight web-dev platform to power its new "XAML for Blazor" offering, which lets .NET developers use markup language within client-side Blazor applications.
07/13/2023
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Q&A
The idea is to reduce the cost, time and risk of delivering changes so you can deploy more often and ensure that your software is heading in the right direction.
07/12/2023
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.NET 8, now four months away from GA, continues to advance native ahead-of-time compilation (native AOT) functionality in the new Preview 6.
07/12/2023
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Microsoft shipped .NET 8 Preview 6, bolstering the new rendering schemes for Blazor, the ASP.NET Core web-dev component that allows for primarily using C# instead of JavaScript.
07/11/2023
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Brand new in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace is a .NET MAUI tool that provides cross-platform developers with easy access to the evolution of Xamarin.Forms that adds the ability to create desktop apps.
07/11/2023
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Generative AI again takes center stage in the latest edition of Microsoft's open source-based Visual Studio Code editor, which advanced to version 1.8.0 in the June 2023 update. A highlight of the release is the ability to use the AI-powered GitHub Copilot coding assistant to quickly scaffold projects and notebooks.
07/11/2023
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As promised at Build 2023 in May, Microsoft Dev Box is now generally available, providing an Azure-based service that delivers virtual workstations specially configured for software development.
07/11/2023
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While ledger is a game-changer for security, SQL Server 2022 also introduced new functionality around Dynamic Data Masking (DDM), T-SQL enhancements and more.
07/10/2023
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After a nearly one-year preview and "countless thousands of hours of dedication" driving a years-long development effort, Avalonia v11 has shipped.
07/07/2023
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on this regression technique, which is especially useful when there is limited training data.
07/06/2023
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"Until Blazor, most of us were stuck writing services in C# and the client in JavaScript, but now we can get back to an environment where it is possible to share code between server and client, along with having just one technology to learn."
07/05/2023
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Microsoft's June update to its Java tooling in Visual Studio Code focuses on enhancing code completion performance, improving user experience in unit testing and project creation, and introducing new project types.
07/03/2023
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With Microsoft's "copilot" AI assistants springing up everywhere, here are the 10 most popular VS Code tools that mention or are tagged with the term.
06/30/2023
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In-Depth
Jason Bock will explain what's new in .NET 7 APIs at a big August developer conference in San Diego.
06/29/2023
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Some things never seem to change in the annual SO surveys, like JavaScript being named the top programming language while Microsoft rules in IDEs.
06/28/2023
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As AI takes hold in the enterprise, Microsoft is educating developers with guidance for more complex use cases in order to get the best out of advanced, generative machine learning models like those that power ChatGPT and the company's Copilot assistants that are popping up all over.
06/27/2023
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Open source champion Eclipse Foundation is advancing the Open VSX Registry, a vendor-neutral, community-supported alternative to the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace.
06/27/2023
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Semantic Kernel acts as an AI orchestration layer in Microsoft's stack of AI models and "copilot" assistants, providing interaction services for those constructs to work with underlying foundation models and AI infrastructure.
06/26/2023
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Microsoft announced the preview release of C# Dev Kit, a new extension for Visual Studio Code intended to improve the C# development experience on Linux, macOS, Windows and more.
06/23/2023
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After a years-long problematic relationship, AI-powered coding assistant tools from Microsoft and GitHub are working together better.
06/22/2023
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Visual Studio 2022 17.7 Preview 2 has shipped with a raft of improvements that include community-driven features such as improved file comparisons and instant pull requests from within the IDE.
06/21/2023
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Q&A
Are you mystified by all the Azure services Microsoft provides to help developers build .NET apps in the cloud?
06/20/2023