At this week's Microsoft Ignite conference, the Visual Studio team showed off a future AI-powered IDE that will leverage GitHub Copilot for legacy app .NET upgrades, along with several more cutting-edge features.
Eschewing the term "Copilot," Microsoft introduced a new AI-powered tool for PowerShell called "AI Shell," available in preview.
GitHub says new research proves its Copilot AI tool can improve code quality, following earlier reports that said it boosts developer productivity -- and has a retort for contrarian studies.
The brand-new Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 lets devs specify the AI model they want to use with the baked-in GitHub Copilot, but some are clamoring for more options, such as the latest/greatest Claude 3.5 Sonnet model from Anthropic that is available in VS Code.
Microsoft's early embrace of advanced AI in its dev tooling continues apace with the new public preview of SQL database in Microsoft Fabric, the company's analytics/data platform.
The company will infuse multi-agent runtime tech developed in its AutoGen research project into its production-ready Semantic Kernel SDK, both open source.
Uno Platform provided a new take on visual designers for .NET app development, claiming a breakthrough that changes code at runtime rather than the design stage.
Microsoft just shipped Visual Studio 2022 v17.12, focusing on enhancing developer experiences specifically for .NET 9 projects and introducing new AI productivity features. This update incorporates numerous developer-requested enhancements aimed at simplifying workflows and improving overall productivity.
Microsoft shipped .NET 9 today with the dev team highlighting .NET Aspire and AI in a keynote and follow-on sessions of the livestreamed launch event.
Microsoft introduced a new guided chat experience within GitHub Copilot, aiming to make developer interactions with AI more natural and effective.
Microsoft announced its open-source Semantic Kernel toolkit for integrating advanced AI models into applications is now available on the Amazon Bedrock managed service.
In announcing SSMS 21 Preview 1 this week, Microsoft revealed Copilot AI for the tool is also being previewed, privately.
Microsoft's October 2024 release of Visual Studio Code (v1.95) focuses on enhancing the AI-driven development experience through GitHub Copilot. AI-related updates affect large code edits, multi-account support, and a more accessible Copilot Chat.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cybersecurity threat actors keep leveraging Microsoft development tooling as attack vectors, with the new one coming via malware phishing.
"The Spring Tools now show code lenses above these expressions that allow you to quickly let GitHub Copilot explain those statements for you."