Microsoft this week detailed new features for its Java tooling, both in its Visual Studio Code extension and the Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ.
Newly GA Chat tool gets update with slash commands and context variables to help developers get focused answers on code from within the IDE.
"We find disconcerting trends for maintainability."
While the complaints are numerous and vociferous, Microsoft's Mads Kristensen took pains to reply to many, sometimes educating users on how to immediately solve their issues, sometimes pointing out where they can vote on relevant feature requests to solve the peeves, sometimes commiserating.
Despite reaching v1.0, it's described as an early preview with much more work to be done, more than six years after its debut.
Microsoft says organizational focus on improving the overall developer experience -- as opposed to traditional developer productivity/velocity measurements -- pays off, according to new research.
Microsoft's' string of productivity improvements in Visual Studio 2022 over the past year have continued in v17.9 Preview 3, shipped last week.
Microsoft announced a "special invitation with a" "sweet offer" to developers attending the upcoming Visual Studio Live! developer conference in Las Vegas, headlined by the company's expert developers.
Number of installs has grown some 1,770 percent since we last checked, and it's now the second-most popular AI tool behind original GitHub Copilot.
Microsoft is polishing up a new PowerToys utility to improve the user experience on PowerShell in Windows 10 and 11 by suggesting installations of missing components through WinGet packages.
GitHub Copilot Chat is delivered as extensions for Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio, with the VS Code tool much more popular (nearly 6 million installs compared with 191,183 for the IDE version).
Debuting with the unwieldy moniker "Azure Migrate application and code assessment tool for .NET" (shortened to AppCAT), it helps developers assess a .NET app's code, configurations and binaries to smooth the migration process.
Microsoft's Semantic Kernel AI SDK has new documentation to explain its capability to create AI agents that can interact with users, answer questions, call existing code, automate processes and perform various other tasks.
Microsoft is always soliciting feedback to help guide its development tooling efforts, most recently asking developers to weigh in with their requests to Santa for new debugging functionality in the form of a "debug-tastic" gift.
As we have reported before, Microsoft's super-popular Visual Studio Code is the No. 1 code editor for multiple programming languages, and Google's Go is on that list.
Microsoft's C# programming language led the race to be named "programming language of the year" for 2022 by the TIOBE Index before being overtaken at the very end, but it's expected to attain the throne this year.
New features and functionality boost productivity, C++ game development and .NET/C# (.NET MAUI).
The December 2023 update to Python in Visual Studio Code introduces several new features, including configurable debugging options that are now available on the Run button menu.
In Visual Studio Code 1.85, the dev team has improved the GitHub Copilot "AI pair programmer" in several ways, including tweaking the chat UI and providing more support for the Rust programming language.
After Microsoft's Semantic Kernel SDK for AI projects was set for a revamp upon the company finding "unexpected uses," it has this week shipped in near-final form as a Release Candidate 1.