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News
Since announcing Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 in August, Microsoft's dev team has been busy shipping a series of AI-heavy previews for the next edition.
10/17/2024
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News
Microsoft has baked advanced GitHub Copilot tech into the latest edition of Visual Studio, but the aging IntelliCode feature of the IDE actually helped shape the modern experience.
10/16/2024
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The Data Science Lab
Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the Winnow classification technique. Winnow classification is used for a very specific scenario where the target variable to predict is binary and all the predictor variables are also binary.
10/15/2024
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Cybersecurity threat actors keep leveraging Microsoft development tooling as attack vectors, with the new one coming via malware phishing.
10/14/2024
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In-Depth
Vision-centric queries show how front-line experts are prompting LLMs these days.
10/11/2024
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News
"The Spring Tools now show code lenses above these expressions that allow you to quickly let GitHub Copilot explain those statements for you."
10/10/2024
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The basic idea is to provide unified API abstractions, especially for idiomatic C# code, to help platform developers and others work with any provider with standard implementations for caching, telemetry, tool calling and other common tasks.
10/09/2024
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News
Visual Studio developers can now download the SDK for .NET 9 Release Candidate 2 with a go-live license, meaning devs get Microsoft support for production applications even before the framework reaches general availability next month.
10/09/2024
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Q&A
Learn about Windows-to-Linux conversions and how to break and fix cloud containers -- all while helping to save the world from e-waste with some "sheer geeky fun."
10/08/2024
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Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen provided a peek into the IDE's AI future, explaining how while in live-coding it will identify opportunities for your own app to use AI to your advantage.
10/08/2024
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News
Millions of Python developers using VS Code find updated data science functionality in the new release of version 1.94, the September 2024 edition of Microsoft's open-source-based editor.
10/07/2024
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Further leveraging the relationship that vaulted Microsoft and OpenAI into leadership positions in the AI era, Microsoft this week announced stable versions of two new OpenAI libraries.
10/04/2024
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Microsoft has long embraced the OpenAPI Specification (formerly known as Swagger) for describing APIs, and it's now taking that support to the next level with a new online resource.
10/04/2024
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Q&A
They provide developers with the ability to toggle features on and off without having to redeploy code, making it easier to manage risk, test features in production, and facilitate smoother releases.
10/03/2024
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The Data Science Lab
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full demo of k-nearest neighbors classification on mixed numeric and categorical data. Compared to other classification techniques, k-NN is easy to implement, supports numeric and categorical predictor variables, and is highly interpretable.
10/01/2024
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Q&A
Tony Champion: "From giving you access to the entire lifecycle of a request, the ability to configure and extend authentication and authorization, .NET 8 gives you the power to create APIs to meet even the most demanding needs."
09/25/2024
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News
Java on Visual Studio Code gets a new tool to its extension pack, while Java on Azure upgraded the Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ and more in new regular updates for both properties.
09/25/2024
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News
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.
09/20/2024
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New extension pack bundles wildly popular tools for Python development, assisted by the AI-powered GitHub Copilot and a data wrangler.
09/19/2024
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Q&A
Sometimes, complex technical achievements are best explained through one example. That's the approach Mete Atamel, Developer Advocate at Google, is taking as he makes the rounds detailing the capabilities of Vertex AI and associated tooling on the Google Cloud Platform.
09/18/2024