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.
While many Visual Studio developers are awaiting the debut of .NET 9 in November, they might want to pay attention to a looming security issue with .NET 6, which will reach end of support at the same time, perhaps leaving apps open to cybersecurity attacks.
As AI matures, agents are one of the most significant areas of development, and Microsoft's Semantic Kernel AI dev tooling is getting them, as an experiment for now.
GitHub Models is unveiled as a limited public beta to help platform's 100-million-plus developers try out the latest/greatest AI models from a range of providers.
Microsoft's Visual Studio Code dev teams for Java and Python announced Gradle enhancements for the former and improved Python discovery for the latter.
Visual Studio devs who have become dependent upon GitHub Copilot AI assistance will have to wait a while for a hot new feature already available in VS Code.
In revealing future plans for its Semantic Kernel AI dev tooling, Microsoft said it's going small -- at lease in terms of AI model size.
Prompt engineering positions might not be pulling down $335,000 salaries anymore, but Microsoft is continuing to pump out AI model prompting guidance, with a recent effort being Prompty, described as an intuitive prompt playground delivered in a Visual Studio Code extension.
Developers who use Google's Gemini Code Assist tool in Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor were this month informed the tool would be free to use until Nov. 8, 2024, an extension of a previous July 11 deadline.
In this year's big Stack Overflow developer survey things are much the same for Microsoft-centric data points: VS Code and Visual Studio still rule the IDE roost, while .NET maintains its No. 1 position among non-web frameworks.
Microsoft's first significant update to .NET Aspire for cloud-native app development addresses the building of container images and the orchestration of Python code among a bevy of new features and enhancements.
Uno Platform 5.3 shipped with enhanced Hot Reload UI functionality, full support for the Rider IDE from JetBrains and more.
AI assistants have improved coding productivity, but how do you know if they're getting better?