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Devs can now customize code generation, enjoy enhanced Chat experiences and much more.
09/09/2024
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"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."
08/23/2024
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A highlight of the latest release of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code open-source-based code editor is the ability to pick your default browser for opening links, along with access to new advanced AI model.
08/09/2024
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Microsoft's Visual Studio Code dev teams for Java and Python announced Gradle enhancements for the former and improved Python discovery for the latter.
08/01/2024
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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.
07/31/2024
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Prompt engineering positions might not be pulling down $335,000 salaries anymore, but Microsoft is continuing to pump out AI model prompting guidance, with a recent effort being Prompty, described as an intuitive prompt playground delivered in a Visual Studio Code extension.
07/30/2024
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Developers who use Google's Gemini Code Assist tool in Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor were this month informed the tool would be free to use until Nov. 8, 2024, an extension of a previous July 11 deadline.
07/29/2024
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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.
07/26/2024
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Java on Visual Studio Code got some UI changes including new sections for the project settings page, along with improvements for Spring development.
07/08/2024
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Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it shares much tech.
06/27/2024
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GitHub supercharged search for its Copilot Enterprise AI assistant in both Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code so developers can now get results from well beyond local codebases, including the internet.
06/25/2024
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This reporter, recently accepted to preview GitHub Copilot for Azure, has thus far found the tool to be, well, glitchy.
06/20/2024
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Developers using the "Insiders" build of the latest Visual Studio Code update, version 1.90, can now enjoy enhanced chat AI functionality in extensions.
06/06/2024
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Count among the many emerging abilities of GitHub Copilot new functionality for rewriting your Java syntax in Visual Studio Code.
06/03/2024
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During this week's Build 2024 developer conference, Microsoft announced a private preview of GitHub Copilot for Azure, which lets developers use the AI pair programming tool in the cloud.
05/23/2024
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GitHub introduced Copilot Extensions, providing customized AI assistance by integrating tools from partners like DataStax, Docker and Microsoft Azure directly into the Copilot interface.
05/22/2024
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Tying in to the newly generally available Azure AI Studio, it enables developers to explore, try, fine-tune and integrate state-of-the-art AI models into applications.
05/21/2024
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Microsoft's C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code has been updated to more easily wrangle NuGet packages, run/debug .NET Aspire applications, see the active document in Solution Explorer and acquire the .NET SDK within the editor.
05/08/2024
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The latest update to Visual Studio Code includes a number of new features and improvements for GitHub Copilot AI, including inline chat in the terminal.
05/03/2024
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As any Visual Studio Code user knows, the editor's command palette is a powerful tool for getting things done quickly, without having to navigate through menus and dialogs. Now, we learn how an equivalent is coming for Microsoft's flagship Visual Studio IDE, invoked by the same familiar Ctrl+Shift+P keyboard shortcut.
04/17/2024
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Microsoft announced March 2024 updates to its Python and Java extensions for Visual Studio Code, the open source-based, cross-platform code editor that has repeatedly been named the No. 1 tool in major development surveys.
04/12/2024
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The Copilot chat feature now includes inline chat improvements, one in preview, along with commit message generation enhancements and workspace creation improvements.
04/08/2024
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Microsoft continually seeks to embrace programming languages beyond its own C#, TypeScript and F# and so on, lately boosting support for Go, the popular language developed by Google.
03/27/2024
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Emerging from beta, GitHub Copilot Chat is now generally available in JetBrains IDEs after having reached GA in Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code editor last December.
03/08/2024
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At this point, Copilot for writing in VS Code is a mixed bag for me. It can offer completely accurate and helpful suggestions or it can write like Hunter S. Thompson on a bad acid trip.
03/06/2024