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."
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.
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 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.
Millions of Python developers using VS Code find updated data science functionality in the new release of version 1.94, the September 2024 edition of Microsoft's open-source-based editor.
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.
Microsoft has long embraced the OpenAPI Specification (formerly known as Swagger) for describing APIs, and it's now taking that support to the next level with a new online resource.
Java on Visual Studio Code gets a new tool to its extension pack, while Java on Azure upgraded the Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ and more in new regular updates for both properties.
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.
New extension pack bundles wildly popular tools for Python development, assisted by the AI-powered GitHub Copilot and a data wrangler.