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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says decision trees are useful for relatively small datasets and when the trained model must be easily interpretable, but often don't work well with large data sets and can be susceptible to model overfitting.
02/21/2023
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Developers continue to claim -- as they have for years -- that the "AI pair programmer" GitHub Copilot tool doesn't work well with IntelliSense, which is built in to Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
02/17/2023
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"Learning about event-based services changes the way that web applications are built, and is an important part of how the modern web works."
02/16/2023
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GitHub has again upgraded the AI tech behind its Copilot "AI pair programmer," which reportedly already generates 61 percent of Java Code in editors where it's used and 46 percent across all languages.
02/15/2023
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"Maybe that gets a little too crazy. Nothing committed there."
02/14/2023
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Since Microsoft's Steve Sanderson teased a prototype "Blazor United" project last month in a video, the company has basically been mum on the subject, but that's changing with a deep dive tomorrow.
02/13/2023
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The first preview of .NET 8 is coming in a couple of weeks (-ish) said Microsoft's David Ortinau during a livestreamed tech event held in Stockholm.
02/10/2023
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A new software security report finds .NET applications had the highest percentage of flaws when compared to two popular programming languages (even though .NET isn't a programming language).
02/09/2023
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Microsoft updated its programming languages strategy, confirming that Visual Basic will remain a going concern even though it's still relegated to second-rate status when compared to C# and F#.
02/08/2023
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"We've also added a new AI Tools in VS Code topic to the VS Code documentation that will help you get started with Copilot."
02/06/2023
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Shortly after Blazor creator Steve Sanderson wowed web-devs with a new prototype project called Blazor United and solicited feedback on its viability, Microsoft flipped the switch and put it on the roadmap for .NET 8.
02/03/2023
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Renowned web-dev expert to dive into the foundations of ASP.NET Core, building RESTful services with ASP.NET Core and documenting services with Swagger.
02/02/2023
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After being recognized as ONE of the fastest-growing programming languages in last year's developer report from dev tooling specialist JetBrains, Microsoft's TypeScript was named THE fastest-growing language this year.
02/02/2023
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says the main advantage of scikit is that it's easy to use (even though most classes have many constructor parameters).
02/01/2023
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Upon wizard completion, the tool wires everything up, basically abstracting the coding drudgery of manually grabbing NuGet packages and implementing Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control, constructor injections and so on.
01/31/2023
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"In this updated solution template, the 'Shared Project' is replaced by a regular cross-platform library containing all user code files."
01/30/2023
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"By far the No. 1 reason decision makers don't get enthusiastic about design is that they have no idea how much money they're leaving on the table."
01/27/2023
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"We've started some experiments to combine the advantages of Razor Pages, Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly all into one thing."
01/26/2023
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"We've created a new online resource, Azure for Spring developers, to help Spring developers code, deploy and scale their Spring applications on Azure.
01/25/2023
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The company said its new Progress Developer Tools R1 2023 release includes design and accessibility upgrades, deeper customizations and support for the latest frameworks.
01/25/2023
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With ChatGPT being the first "It" tech in the cutting-edge AI space that regular people can play around with, it's no wonder that tools to use it are exploding in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace.
01/24/2023
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An update to Microsoft's .NET Community Toolkit provides new dedicated analyzers that not only flags potential errors but also help beginners understand and improve their code.
01/23/2023
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"17.5 Preview 3 has the first preview version of our spell checker for code documents which will help folks identify misspelled words in comments, strings and identifiers for C#, C++ and Markdown files."
01/19/2023
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The fundamental technique has been studied for decades, thus creating a huge amount of information and alternate variations that make it hard to tell what is key vs. non-essential information.
01/18/2023
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"We wondered how we could make editing your code feel as tactile and easy as paint with a brush in Photoshop."
01/13/2023
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The latest State of JavaScript survey confirms findings from previous editions: Developers like and want static typing for the super-popular programming language. What's more, they're more likely to use statically typed TypeScript 100 percent of the time rather than dynamically typed vanilla JavaScript.
01/12/2023
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"The Python Pulse will be a way for developers to interact with the teams behind the products."
01/11/2023