Some developers complained that advanced AI models come sooner to VS Code than Visual Studio, but the new Claude Sonnet 3.7 model is now available in IDE with a paid GitHub Copilot account and a simple settings tweak in GitHub.
With agentic AI now firmly established as a key component of modern software development, Microsoft graduated its Semantic Kernel Agent Framework to Release Candidate 1 status.
Microsoft shipped TypeScript 5.8 with improved type checking in some scenarios, but thorny problems caused the dev team to delay related work to the next release.
Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demo of Poisson regression, where the goal is to predict a count of things arriving, such as the number of telephone calls received in a 10-minute interval at a call center. When your source data is close to mathematically Poisson distributed, Poisson regression is simple and effective.
- By James McCaffrey
- 03/03/2025
Along with .NET 10 Preview 1, Microsoft released.NET Aspire 9.1, the latest update to its opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building resilient, observable, and configurable cloud-native applications with .NET.
Microsoft shipped .NET 10 Preview 1, introducing a raft of improvements and fixes across performance, libraries, and the developer experience.
Microsoft's dev team has been busy updating the C# Dev Kit, a Visual Studio Code extension that enhances the C# development experience by providing tools for managing, debugging, and editing C# projects.
Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the naive Bayes regression technique, where the goal is to predict a single numeric value. Compared to other machine learning regression techniques, naive Bayes regression is usually less accurate, but is simple, easy to implement and customize, works on both large and small datasets, is highly interpretable, and doesn't require tuning any hyperparameters.
- By James McCaffrey
- 02/20/2025
Two Microsoft experts will present on the cloud-native application stack designed to simplify the development of distributed systems in .NET at the Visual Studio Live! developer conference coming to Las Vegas next month.
New GitHub Copilot AI features range from AI-enhanced feature search to edits across files, new shortcuts and expansion of slash commands, along with much more.
At the upcoming Visual Studio Live! conference in Las Vegas, Marcel de Vries, Global MD & CTO at Xebia, will present a session on how developers can leverage Semantic Kernel to build AI-enhanced applications with C#.
Uno Platform, a third-party dev tooling specialist that caters to .NET developers, published a report on the state of WebAssembly, addressing some shortcomings in the .NET implementation it would like to see Microsoft address.
Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the random neighborhoods regression technique, where the goal is to predict a single numeric value. Compared to other ML regression techniques, advantages are that it can handle both large and small datasets, and the results are highly interpretable.
- By James McCaffrey
- 02/03/2025
We often hear about the big new features in .NET or C#, but what about all of those lesser known, but useful new features? How exactly do you use constructs like collection indices and ranges, date features, and pattern matching?
"TypeScript 5.8 introduces a number of optimizations that can both improve the time to build up a program, and also to update a program based on a file change in either --watch mode or editor scenarios."
Microsoft's Visual Studio dev team has been working on the next release of its flagship IDE, Visual Studio 2022 v17.13, with an emphasis on improving the GitHub Copilot AI-powered coding assistant.
In an IDE AI update, this week we see JetBrains introducing a new coding agent called Junie just as Microsoft unveiled a free tier for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio.
Microsoft experts are making the rounds educating developers about the company's new, opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native applications with .NET.
Only at v0.4, Microsoft's AutoGen framework for agentic AI -- the hottest new trend in AI development -- has already undergone a complete revamp, going to an asynchronous, event-driven architecture.
In a larger-than-normal Patch Tuesday, Microsoft warned of a "critical" vulnerability in Visual Studio that should be fixed immediately if automatic patching isn't enabled, ironically caused by coding errors.