After Microsoft's Semantic Kernel SDK for AI projects was set for a revamp upon the company finding "unexpected uses," it has this week shipped in near-final form as a Release Candidate 1.
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research will teach how to do just that at an upcoming Visual Studio Live! developer conference.
WebAssembly made Microsoft's Blazor framework possible by enabling C#-based web development, and now the company wants it to completely remake cloud computing.
The top open item for Visual Studio on Microsoft's Developer Community feedback site asks for native Rust support, but the company has taken little action on the years-old request.
Add "submit Git commit" to the growing list of developer tasks in Visual Studio 2022 that are now being handled by AI.
Microsoft shipped ML.NET 3.0, enhancing deep learning and data processing scenarios in the company's machine language framework that lets devs create AI-infused apps completely within the .NET ecosystem.
Microsoft advanced TypeScript to version 5.3 with a bevy of changes affecting everything from import attributes to interactive inlay hints for types, along with multiple optimizations.
Six months ago, Microsoft teased Visual Studio 2022 developers by announcing an upcoming UI refresh, which they can now finally get their eyes on in the new v17.9 preview 1.
In announcing Visual Studio 2022 17.8 today, Microsoft emphasized community-driven productivity gains among the new features and functionality.
In announcing .NET 8 today, Microsoft emphasized the cloud, performance, full-stack Blazor, AI and .NET MAUI as major highlights of the latest edition of the company's free, cross-platform, open source developer platform.
Enterprise search specialist dtSearch enhanced ASP.NET Core functionality in the latest update to its flagship product.
GitHub announced its "Copilot Chat" offering will reach general availability next month as the company goes all in on AI.
C# and TypeScript get a lot more attention, but Microsoft has also been steadily working to improve its F# programming language.
Uno Platform 5.0 shipped this week with the ability to create entire cross-platform applications -- including markup -- from a single codebase written in one language, C#.
Microsoft's Daniel Roth took to X (Twitter) to garner feedback on Blazor WebAssembly client-side debugging and received an earful in response, including complaints about associated Hot Reload functionality.
Improvements to the latest release of Progress Telerik third-party .NET developer tooling come mainly in three areas: UI design/styling; accessibility/compliance; and data visualization.
Microsoft is now cranking out weekly previews of Visual Studio 2022 17.8, perhaps aiming for general availability next month with the debut of .NET 8 and associated dev tooling.
Jim Wooley takes 20 minutes to discuss Table Splitting, Owned Types, Query Filters, DbContext pooling, GroupBy, String Interpolation, Lazy loading, Value Converters, Data Seeding, Query types, Optimized correlated subqueries, Spatial support, Query Tags and more.
Compared to other regression techniques, a well-tuned neural network regression system can produce the most accurate prediction model, says Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research in presenting this full-code, step-by-step tutorial.
- By James McCaffrey
- 10/18/2023
"If the trends remain this way, C# will surpass Java in about 2 month's time."