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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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News
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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News
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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News
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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News
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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News
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
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News
The List & Label reporting tool by combit helps devs integrate advanced reporting, printing and exporting capabilities into their apps for web, cloud and desktop environments with minimal code.
10/18/2024
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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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News
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