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News
Eschewing the term "Copilot," Microsoft introduced a new AI-powered tool for PowerShell called "AI Shell," available in preview.
11/22/2024
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GitHub says new research proves its Copilot AI tool can improve code quality, following earlier reports that said it boosts developer productivity -- and has a retort for contrarian studies.
11/22/2024
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The brand-new Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 lets devs specify the AI model they want to use with the baked-in GitHub Copilot, but some are clamoring for more options, such as the latest/greatest Claude 3.5 Sonnet model from Anthropic that is available in VS Code.
11/20/2024
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Microsoft's early embrace of advanced AI in its dev tooling continues apace with the new public preview of SQL database in Microsoft Fabric, the company's analytics/data platform.
11/19/2024
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The company will infuse multi-agent runtime tech developed in its AutoGen research project into its production-ready Semantic Kernel SDK, both open source.
11/18/2024
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Uno Platform provided a new take on visual designers for .NET app development, claiming a breakthrough that changes code at runtime rather than the design stage.
11/15/2024
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The Data Science Lab
Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of k-nearest neighbors regression to predict a single numeric value. Compared to other machine learning regression techniques, k-NN regression is often slightly less accurate, but is very simple to implement and customize, and the results are highly interpretable.
11/15/2024
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Microsoft just shipped Visual Studio 2022 v17.12, focusing on enhancing developer experiences specifically for .NET 9 projects and introducing new AI productivity features. This update incorporates numerous developer-requested enhancements aimed at simplifying workflows and improving overall productivity.
11/13/2024
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Microsoft shipped .NET 9 today with the dev team highlighting .NET Aspire and AI in a keynote and follow-on sessions of the livestreamed launch event.
11/12/2024
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News
Microsoft introduced a new guided chat experience within GitHub Copilot, aiming to make developer interactions with AI more natural and effective.
11/07/2024
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Microsoft announced its open-source Semantic Kernel toolkit for integrating advanced AI models into applications is now available on the Amazon Bedrock managed service.
11/07/2024
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In announcing SSMS 21 Preview 1 this week, Microsoft revealed Copilot AI for the tool is also being previewed, privately.
11/07/2024
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The Data Science Lab
Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of data clustering and anomaly detection using the DBSCAN (Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise) algorithm. Compared to other anomaly detection systems based on data clustering, DBSCAN can find significantly different types of anomalies.
11/06/2024
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Microsoft's October 2024 release of Visual Studio Code (v1.95) focuses on enhancing the AI-driven development experience through GitHub Copilot. AI-related updates affect large code edits, multi-account support, and a more accessible Copilot Chat.
11/06/2024
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Q&A
As organizations increasingly rely on cloud-native solutions, the need for robust, real-time monitoring tools has never been more pressing.
10/30/2024
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In-Depth
With JetBrains making its Rider and WebStorm IDEs freely available for non-commercial use, Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition has a new competitor, not to mention Visual Studio Code. So what's a (non-enterprise) .NET-centric developer to do now?
10/28/2024
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In-Depth
Here's a taste of our no-coding future, thanks to Copilot AI.
10/24/2024
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News
Microsoft today previewed a keynote presentation by Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen at an upcoming developer/IT pro event where he will be joined by other company dev luminaries such as Jon Galloway, Rachel Kang, and James Montemagno.
10/23/2024
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News
Third-party .NET-centric dev UI tooling specialist Syncfusion this week announced the open sourcing of 14 controls for .NET MAUI, the evolution of Xamarin.Forms that adds support for building desktop apps.
10/23/2024
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Q&A
"Kubernetes has a lot of 'moving parts' so can be intimidating at first," says Dan Wahlin, a principal cloud developer advocate at Microsoft who promises to explain everything at a developer conference next month in Orlando.
10/22/2024