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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end program that explains how to perform binary classification (predicting a variable with two possible discrete values) using logistic regression, where the prediction model is trained using batch stochastic gradient descent with weight decay.
- By James McCaffrey
- 09/16/2024
"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.
Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a C# program that illustrates using the AdaBoost algorithm to perform binary classification for spam detection. Compared to other classification algorithms, AdaBoost is powerful and works well with small datasets, but is sometimes susceptible to model overfitting.
- By James McCaffrey
- 09/03/2024
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.
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.
.NET 9 is coming in November, so here is help in how to build and deploy a modern .NET 9 app using cloud and DevOps tools.
"During the VS Live conference last week, it was brought to my attention that Visual Studio has no support for formatting SQL files."
Blazor shook up the .NET-centric web-dev space several years ago with its new ability to create web apps using C# and .NET instead of primarily coding UI with JavaScript like most every other framework, and it has been steadily advancing ever since. Here's a look at using RazorComponents for app integration.
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.
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 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.