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Microsoft Highlights Third-Party Open-Source '.NET Smart Components'

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.

Data Science Pack for VS Code Bundles Python, Data and Copilot Tools

New extension pack bundles wildly popular tools for Python development, assisted by the AI-powered GitHub Copilot and a data wrangler.

30th Annual Visual Studio Magazine Reader's Choice Awards Announced

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.

Another Report Weighs In on GitHub Copilot Dev Productivity: 👎

Several reports have answered "yes" to the question of whether GitHub Copilot improves developer productivity. A new one says "no."

Dev Asks, and 7 Years Later Python in VS Code Delivers Django Unit Test Support

"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!"

OData Finally Ditches Old .NET Framework

"The most disruptive change we are making in this release is dropping support for .NET Framework."

.NET MAUI, ASP.NET Core Polished in First Release Candidate for .NET 9

Microsoft shipped the first release candidate for .NET 9, which is nearing feature completeness and production readiness in advance of its November debut.

Microsoft's Stalled UWP Project Supports .NET 9 to Help WinUI 3 Migration

The company urges devs to switch to Windows App SDK and WinUI 3 because UWP is no longer under active development.

VS Code Experiments Boost AI Copilot Functionality

Devs can now customize code generation, enjoy enhanced Chat experiences and much more.

Windows Community Toolkit Update Improves Controls

The Windows Community Toolkit advanced to version 8.1, adding new features, improving existing controls and making dependency changes.

ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI Updated as .NET 9 Nears

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.

.NET Community Toolkit Gets Native AOT and .NET 8 Support

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 Copilot Tops Research Report on AI Code Assistants

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.

VS Code Tool for Azure Machine Learning Ships After 7-Year Preview

"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."

Newly Open-Sourced '.NET Smart Components' Demoed at AI Event

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.

Content Exclusion Is Latest of Many New Visual Studio Copilot Features

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.

Microsoft Spotlights .NET 9, Cloud in First Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 Preview

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.

Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 Ships 'Shaped by Your Feedback' (and AI)

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.

VSLive! Dev Conference Tip Leads to New IDE Extension: Sql Formatter

"During the VS Live conference last week, it was brought to my attention that Visual Studio has no support for formatting SQL files."

Copilot Rolled Out to Your Org? Better Check User Activity

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.

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