.NET Framework


Free (Non-Commercial) JetBrains Rider vs. Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition

With JetBrains making its Rider and WebStorm IDEs freely available for non-commercial use, Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition has a new competitor, not to mention Visual Studio Code. So what's a (non-enterprise) .NET-centric developer to do now?

Copilot Workspace Does Web App in Minutes, No Coding Required

Here's a taste of our no-coding future, thanks to Copilot AI.

Microsoft Previews Mads Kristensen Keynote at Orlando Dev Conference

Microsoft today previewed a keynote presentation by Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen at an upcoming developer/IT pro event where he will be joined by other company dev luminaries such as Jon Galloway, Rachel Kang, and James Montemagno.

Syncfusion Open Sources 14 Controls for .NET MAUI

Third-party .NET-centric dev UI tooling specialist Syncfusion this week announced the open sourcing of 14 controls for .NET MAUI, the evolution of Xamarin.Forms that adds support for building desktop apps.

New Combit Reporting Tool Release Supports .NET 9

The List & Label reporting tool by combit helps devs integrate advanced reporting, printing and exporting capabilities into their apps for web, cloud and desktop environments with minimal code.

Copilot AI Enhanced in Flurry of Visual Studio v17.12 Previews

Since announcing Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 in August, Microsoft's dev team has been busy shipping a series of AI-heavy previews for the next edition.

How Visual Studio IntelliCode Helped Shape GitHub Copilot and Modern AI

Microsoft has baked advanced GitHub Copilot tech into the latest edition of Visual Studio, but the aging IntelliCode feature of the IDE actually helped shape the modern experience.

Winnow Classification Using C#

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the Winnow classification technique. Winnow classification is used for a very specific scenario where the target variable to predict is binary and all the predictor variables are also binary.

Microsoft Eases Integration with Semantic Kernel AI SDK

The basic idea is to provide unified API abstractions, especially for idiomatic C# code, to help platform developers and others work with any provider with standard implementations for caching, telemetry, tool calling and other common tasks.

Final .NET 9 Preview Ships with Go-Live License

Visual Studio developers can now download the SDK for .NET 9 Release Candidate 2 with a go-live license, meaning devs get Microsoft support for production applications even before the framework reaches general availability next month.

Visual Studio's Future: Live Help to 'AI-ify Your App'

Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen provided a peek into the IDE's AI future, explaining how while in live-coding it will identify opportunities for your own app to use AI to your advantage.

Microsoft Ships Stable Versions of OpenAI Libraries for .NET and Azure

Further leveraging the relationship that vaulted Microsoft and OpenAI into leadership positions in the AI era, Microsoft this week announced stable versions of two new OpenAI libraries.

Get Good at DevOps: Feature Flag Deployments with ASP.NET WebAPI

They provide developers with the ability to toggle features on and off without having to redeploy code, making it easier to manage risk, test features in production, and facilitate smoother releases.

Implementing k-NN Classification Using C#

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full demo of k-nearest neighbors classification on mixed numeric and categorical data. Compared to other classification techniques, k-NN is easy to implement, supports numeric and categorical predictor variables, and is highly interpretable.

Building Secure and Scalable APIs in .NET 8

Tony Champion: "From giving you access to the entire lifecycle of a request, the ability to configure and extend authentication and authorization, .NET 8 gives you the power to create APIs to meet even the most demanding needs."

Microsoft Highlights Third-Party Open-Source '.NET Smart Components'

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.

30th Annual Visual Studio Magazine Reader's Choice Awards Announced

For the 30th year in a row, Visual Studio Magazine readers have chosen the best tools and services for developers. The 2024 winners are honored in 43 categories, from component suites to testing tools to AI helpers.

Logistic Regression with Batch SGD Training and Weight Decay Using C#

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end program that explains how to perform binary classification (predicting a variable with two possible discrete values) using logistic regression, where the prediction model is trained using batch stochastic gradient descent with weight decay.

OData Finally Ditches Old .NET Framework

"The most disruptive change we are making in this release is dropping support for .NET Framework."

.NET MAUI, ASP.NET Core Polished in First Release Candidate for .NET 9

Microsoft shipped the first release candidate for .NET 9, which is nearing feature completeness and production readiness in advance of its November debut.

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