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    After Hiring Creator of Python VS Code Tool, Microsoft Hires Creator of Python

    Microsoft is pursuing its prominent Python push in a big way, hiring the creator of the popular programming language, Guido van Rossum. 11/19/2020

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    Microsoft Turns Teams Collaboration Software into Low-Code Dev Tool

    Microsoft announced a host of app development capabilities for Teams, which is fighting with competitors such as Zoom in the exploding meeting/collaboration space as the COVID-19 pandemic forces organizations to keep workers home. 11/18/2020

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    ARM64 Support, Hot Reload Featured in WinUI Preview 3

    Microsoft released preview 3 of WinUI 3, the latest iteration of the company's native UI platform, which features support for ARM64, a live visual tree, hot reload and much more. 11/18/2020

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    GrapeCity Updates Controls for .NET 5

    GrapeCity updated its suite of controls for .NET development to support the new .NET 5 milestone release that seeks to unify all of the disparate .NET offerings under one umbrella framework. 11/18/2020

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    4 Experts List Favorite New EF Core 5.0 Features

    Experts in the open source community surrounding Microsoft's recent EF Core 5.0 release have weighed in with their favorite new features in the object-database mapper for .NET. 11/17/2020

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    Java on Visual Studio Code Adds 'Small' New Things

    Apparently the regular monthly update to Java on Visual Studio Code doesn't introduce any ground-breaking new features, but rather "some 'small' new things that you would love." 11/17/2020

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    Visual Studio 2019 for Mac v8.8 Adds Blazor WebAssembly Debugging

    Along with last week's mass shipments of .NET 5, Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 and more, Microsoft also released Visual Studio 2019 for Mac v8.8, which can now debug Blazor WebAssembly applications. 11/16/2020

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    VS Code Python Updates Include New Jupyter Extension

    Since Microsoft went all in on Python for its open source, cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor years ago, the company has steadily been adding new features, tools and functionality, including a brand-new Jupyter extension that will bring Notebook coding support to other languages. 11/13/2020

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    Blazor and ASP.NET Core Get Faster in .NET 5

    When looking at the updates to web development in the new .NET 5 milestone release, one thing stands out: speed. 11/12/2020

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    Hot Reload Revamp Leads Xamarin Updates in Visual Studio 2019 v16.8

    A revamp of "hot reload" functionality headlines a bevy of improvements to Xamarin that were highlighted by Microsoft this week as it launched Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 and .NET 5 during the .NET Conf 2020 online developer event. 11/12/2020

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    Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 Ships with Git Turned On by Default

    Along with .NET 5, Microsoft today shipped Visual Studio 2019 v16.8, which sees Git turned on by default as the version control experience in the latest update of the company's flagship IDE. 11/10/2020

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    .NET 5 Arrives

    While it doesn't reflect the full vision of unification that Microsoft originally sought, the milestone .NET 5 release has arrived to consolidate many of the moving parts of the .NET ecosystem. 11/10/2020

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    Google Updates Editor for Cloud Shell, Alternative to .NET-Centric GitHub Codespaces

    Google updated its Cloud Shell online development and operations environment that has been characterized as an alternative to GiHub Codespaces, which also provides cloud-hosted dev environments with a focus on Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code developers. 11/09/2020

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    Troublesome Codespaces Work Hinders VS Code 'Housekeeping' Update

    The October 2020 update to Visual Studio Code brings the open source, cross-platform code editor to version 1.51 as the dev team focused on "housekeeping" tasks, so it's light on exciting new features. 11/06/2020

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    Python, a VS Code Mainstay, Slithers Past Java in Popularity Index

    Python, surely the most important programming language to users of Visual Studio Code (except for perhaps C#), has for the first time passed Java to secure the No. 2 spot in the latest TIOBE Index ranking of popularity. 11/05/2020

  • Binary Classification Using PyTorch: Training

    Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research continues his examination of creating a PyTorch neural network binary classifier through six steps, here addressing step No. 4: training the network. 11/04/2020

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    Syncfusion Previews WinUI Controls

    Syncfusion's latest update to its various third-party development controls and tools provides preview support for WinUI, Microsoft's UI framework for all Windows apps across both Win32 and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) 11/04/2020

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    Uno Platform Update Highlights New Linux Support

    Uno Platform, an open source project that enables coding single-codebase, multi-platform web, mobile and desktop apps with .NET-centric technologies like C# and XAML, highlighted preview support for the development of Linux applications in a new version 3.1 update. 11/02/2020

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    Mobile Blazor Bindings Unifies Cross-Platform UI

    Microsoft shipped a new preview of its experimental project, Mobile Blazor Bindings, with a UI unification across the web and mobile/desktop spaces. 10/30/2020

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    Visual Studio Extensions Getting Revamp

    Microsoft is changing the model for Visual Studio extensions with the goal of making them easier to write, safer to use and more cloud-friendly. 10/30/2020

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    Python in Visual Studio Code Update Adds Debugger, Debugpy 1.0

    The new Debugpy debugger for Python in Visual Studio Code hits version 1.0 in the latest update of the Python tooling for the open source, cross-platform code editor. 10/28/2020

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    Kite AI-Powered Code Completion Tool Adds C#, TypeScript, More

    Kite, which provides a code completion tool powered by artificial intelligence (AI), has expanded the number of programming languages that it supports in IDEs and code editors like Visual Studio Code. 10/28/2020

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    .NET for Apache Spark Debuts in Version 1.0

    The open source project .NET for Apache Spark has debuted in version 1.0, finally vaulting the C# and F# programming languages into Big Data first-class citizenship. 10/27/2020

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    In-App Reviews Come to Xamarin.Forms Android

    Android is playing a little catch-up to iOS regarding in-app review functionality, just now coming to Microsoft's Xamarin.Forms implementation. 10/26/2020

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    C# Slides in Usage Ranking of Programming Languages

    "The fact that C# lost three places in the ranking of language communities during the last three years is mostly explained by its slower growth compared to C/C++ and PHP." 10/23/2020

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    Telerik UI for Blazor Updated

    Progress announced an update to its Telerik UI for Blazor components, targeting Microsoft's open source Blazor framework that lets C# coders create web apps without having to rely upon JavaScript. 10/22/2020

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    Infragistics Unveils UI Components for Blazor

    Infragistics, specializing in third-party UI/UX controls and tools, unveiled a new offering targeting Blazor, Microsoft's red-hot open source framework that allows for C#-based web development instead of traditional mainstay JavaScript. 10/22/2020

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