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Prompt engineering positions might not be pulling down $335,000 salaries anymore, but Microsoft is continuing to pump out AI model prompting guidance, with a recent effort being Prompty, described as an intuitive prompt playground delivered in a Visual Studio Code extension.
07/30/2024
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Developers who use Google's Gemini Code Assist tool in Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor were this month informed the tool would be free to use until Nov. 8, 2024, an extension of a previous July 11 deadline.
07/29/2024
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In this year's big Stack Overflow developer survey things are much the same for Microsoft-centric data points: VS Code and Visual Studio still rule the IDE roost, while .NET maintains its No. 1 position among non-web frameworks.
07/26/2024
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Microsoft's first significant update to .NET Aspire for cloud-native app development addresses the building of container images and the orchestration of Python code among a bevy of new features and enhancements.
07/25/2024
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Uno Platform 5.3 shipped with enhanced Hot Reload UI functionality, full support for the Rider IDE from JetBrains and more.
07/24/2024
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Chris Klug keeps seeing developers using Entity Framework, Microsoft's open-source object-relational mapper (ORM) for .NET applications, in less optimal ways.
07/23/2024
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AI assistants have improved coding productivity, but how do you know if they're getting better?
07/22/2024
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Microsoft announced new learning benefits to subscribers of its flagship Visual Studio IDE, including discounts for Visual Studio Live! developer conferences and other educational opportunities.
07/18/2024
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GitHub just updated its online open data and insights platform that provides information on the global and local impact of developers, letting users instantly see their own software development trends.
07/17/2024
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Microsoft yesterday announced its dev execs will focus on cloud-native development with .NET Aspire -- along with modern SQL with a touch of AI in Microsoft Fabric -- at a developer conference next month at the company's Redmond headquarters.
07/16/2024
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on creating an approximation of a dataset that has fewer columns.
07/15/2024
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A new AI-powered UI designer highlights the new release of OpenSilver 3.0, a free, open-source UI framework for building modern .NET web applications in C# and XAML, basically a reimplementation of Microsoft Silverlight that runs on current browsers via WebAssembly.
07/12/2024
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Microsoft's Visual Studio 2022 dev team has been focusing on the AI-powered GitHub Copilot coding assistant as it ramps up the next major release, v17.11.
07/09/2024
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With new dev tooling security vulnerabilities publicized regularly, Microsoft's new .NET 9 Preview 6 addresses the problem in one specific area: NuGet packages used for sharing code libraries, tools and other assets in the .NET ecosystem.
07/09/2024
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Java on Visual Studio Code got some UI changes including new sections for the project settings page, along with improvements for Spring development.
07/08/2024
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Syncfusion beefed up its Blazor offerings in the second major 2024 release of its third-party development tooling for Microsoft-centric developers.
07/03/2024
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Developers doing Windows apps have a confusing arsenal of tools and frameworks to work with, but Microsoft is simplifying things a bit with a new Visual Studio workload that highlights the company's "renewed focus" on the Windows UI Library (WinUI).
07/02/2024
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on using the LightGBM tree-based system to perform binary classification (predicting a discrete variable that has exactly two possible values).
07/01/2024
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Microsoft is making a big push to publicize its new .NET Aspire, a new tech stack to streamline development of .NET cloud-native services.
06/28/2024
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Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it shares much tech.
06/27/2024
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In the age of GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Google Gemini and all the rest, one of the most-used AI coding assistants is still the venerable IntelliCode feature of Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE, whose six-year-old tech now seems positively ancient.
06/26/2024
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GitHub supercharged search for its Copilot Enterprise AI assistant in both Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code so developers can now get results from well beyond local codebases, including the internet.
06/25/2024
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Microsoft shipped the latest iteration of its type-infused superset of JavaScript, TypeScript 5.5, introducing inferred type predicates, control flow narrowing, JSDoc @import and other enhancements.
06/24/2024
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This reporter, recently accepted to preview GitHub Copilot for Azure, has thus far found the tool to be, well, glitchy.
06/20/2024
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Microsoft's fifth preview of .NET 9 nods at AI development while also introducing new templates for some of the more popular project types, including Blazor Hybrid and .NET MAUI.
06/20/2024
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Since its inception as an intriguing experiment in leveraging WebAssembly to enable dynamic web development with C#, Blazor has evolved into a mature, fully featured framework. Integral to the ASP.NET Core ecosystem, Blazor offers developers a unique combination of server-side rendering and rich client-side interactivity.
06/18/2024
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Here's a complete end-to-end demo of what Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says is arguably the simplest possible classification technique.
06/17/2024