XAML Hot Reload for .NET MAUI has been available for Visual Studio for a while, but now it's finally come to the IDE's open-source-based, cross-platform little cousin, Visual Studio Code.
Microsoft is deprecating VBScript in favor of "more advanced" alternatives like JavaScript and PowerShell in a three-phase plan that looks like it will wrap up shortly after 2027 or so.
Progress shipped an update to its Telerik .NET-centric dev tools suite that facilitates generative AI integration into apps.
Enhancements listed for libraries/runtime and individual components/workloads for .NET 9, coming in November.
Microsoft announced the general availability of Semantic Kernel for Python and Java, advancing the open source AI integration SDK that is a key component of the company's Copilot stack of AI tools.
During this week's Build 2024 developer conference, Microsoft announced a private preview of GitHub Copilot for Azure, which lets developers use the AI pair programming tool in the cloud.
During this week's Build 2024 developer conference, Microsoft shipped Visual Studio 2022 v17.10, the latest update to its flagship IDE that improves Copilot AI assistance and debuts the new .NET Aspire tool for cloud development.
Who doesn't want a better quality of life? Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 Preview 1 is here to help, at least for developers using Microsoft's flagship IDE.
GitHub introduced Copilot Extensions, providing customized AI assistance by integrating tools from partners like DataStax, Docker and Microsoft Azure directly into the Copilot interface.
Tying in to the newly generally available Azure AI Studio, it enables developers to explore, try, fine-tune and integrate state-of-the-art AI models into applications.
Part of Microsoft's overall copilot AI assistant initiative, it's described as a pro-code environment for customizing and configuring generative AI applications with Azure-grade security, privacy and compliance.
GitHub addressed vexing outages, including recent days-long email delivery problems that had developers raging on social media, blasting the popular Microsoft-owned code repository for not being able to log in to their accounts -- or report the problem.
Microsoft this week shipped one last minor update for .NET 7, which is no longer supported as of May 14.
Since leveraging generative AI breakthroughs to introduce the original "AI pair programmer" called GitHub Copilot, the company has been on a mission to publish research to showcase its positive impact on developers and organizations.
Microsoft today announced the general availability of the open source Data API builder (DAB), which provides REST and GraphQL endpoints for Azure databases, some three years in the making.
With Microsoft Build 2024 kicking off next week, Microsoft developers have been sharing sessions they're most excited to see.
Microsoft has taken a step further in democratizing the prompt engineering field by sharing a collection of prompts for its various Copilots in a new GitHub repository. It's community-led and contributions are welcome, though you should be comfortable with your forking, branching, cloning and such.
OpenAI's new GPT-4o, the company's latest/greatest LLM, is immediately available for Azure developers, Microsoft announced today.
Microsoft's C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code has been updated to more easily wrangle NuGet packages, run/debug .NET Aspire applications, see the active document in Solution Explorer and acquire the .NET SDK within the editor.
A new feature in the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit allows developers to interact with any visual element in an app based on touch, mouse clicks and hover events.