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.
Several reports have answered "yes" to the question of whether GitHub Copilot improves developer productivity. A new one says "no."
"We are excited to announce support for one of our most requested features: you can now discover and run Django unit tests through the Test Explorer!"
"The most disruptive change we are making in this release is dropping support for .NET Framework."
Microsoft shipped the first release candidate for .NET 9, which is nearing feature completeness and production readiness in advance of its November debut.
The company urges devs to switch to Windows App SDK and WinUI 3 because UWP is no longer under active development.
Devs can now customize code generation, enjoy enhanced Chat experiences and much more.
The Windows Community Toolkit advanced to version 8.1, adding new features, improving existing controls and making dependency changes.
The web-dev ASP.NET Core framework and Xamarin.Forms' successor .NET MAUI received the lion's share of dev attention in the seventh preview of .NET 9 as Microsoft preps for a November launch at .NET Conf 2024.
The .NET Community Toolkit is Microsoft's latest dev tooling to get native ahead-of-time compilation, continuing a years-long push for that capability across the board.
GitHub topped research firm's Gartner's inaugural Magic Quadrant report on AI code assistants, with Copilot leading in both completeness of vision and ability to execute.
"You can use your favorite VS Code setup, either desktop or web, to build, train, deploy, debug, and manage machine learning models with Azure Machine Learning from within VS Code."
Yesterday's .NET Conf Focus on AI online event highlighted Microsoft's latest/greatest AI dev tooling, including the newly open-sourced .NET Smart Components.
The ability for admins to configure Copilot to ignore specific files in repositories or organizations joins a raft of other enhancements that affect everything from commit histories to pull requests to targeted slash commands and more.
With Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 shipping this week, the first preview of the next edition sees Microsoft emphasizing support for the coming .NET 9 and cloud development with Aspire.
Microsoft's Mads Kristensen heavily emphasized the community contributions that helped the dev team ship the brand-new Visual Studio 2022 version 17.11, which includes new features, improvements and fixes across the board spawned from the ideas of users.
"During the VS Live conference last week, it was brought to my attention that Visual Studio has no support for formatting SQL files."
Many organizations jumped on the Gen AI bandwagon in a big way, but now that it has fallen into the "trough of disillusionment," it might be time to check copilot usage to control costs, check for inappropriate or risky behavior and so on.
A highlight of the latest release of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code open-source-based code editor is the ability to pick your default browser for opening links, along with access to new advanced AI model.
Flying under the radar below Visual Studio, VS Code, JetBrains Rider and other big names in the .NET-centric IDE space is the open-source ABP, which just shipped a new community edition.