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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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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 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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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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Here's a taste of our no-coding future, thanks to Copilot AI.
10/24/2024
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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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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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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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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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Vision-centric queries show how front-line experts are prompting LLMs these days.
10/11/2024
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The basic idea is to provide unified API abstractions, especially for idiomatic C# code, to help platform developers and others work with any provider with standard implementations for caching, telemetry, tool calling and other common tasks.
10/09/2024
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Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen provided a peek into the IDE's AI future, explaining how while in live-coding it will identify opportunities for your own app to use AI to your advantage.
10/08/2024
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Millions of Python developers using VS Code find updated data science functionality in the new release of version 1.94, the September 2024 edition of Microsoft's open-source-based editor.
10/07/2024
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Further leveraging the relationship that vaulted Microsoft and OpenAI into leadership positions in the AI era, Microsoft this week announced stable versions of two new OpenAI libraries.
10/04/2024
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full demo of k-nearest neighbors classification on mixed numeric and categorical data. Compared to other classification techniques, k-NN is easy to implement, supports numeric and categorical predictor variables, and is highly interpretable.
10/01/2024
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Microsoft has long acknowledged third-party vendor contributions to dev tooling ecosystems like Blazor and is now doing the same for its newly open-sourced .NET Smart Components.
09/20/2024
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New extension pack bundles wildly popular tools for Python development, assisted by the AI-powered GitHub Copilot and a data wrangler.
09/19/2024
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Sometimes, complex technical achievements are best explained through one example. That's the approach Mete Atamel, Developer Advocate at Google, is taking as he makes the rounds detailing the capabilities of Vertex AI and associated tooling on the Google Cloud Platform.
09/18/2024
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Several reports have answered "yes" to the question of whether GitHub Copilot improves developer productivity. A new one says "no."
09/17/2024
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end program that explains how to perform binary classification (predicting a variable with two possible discrete values) using logistic regression, where the prediction model is trained using batch stochastic gradient descent with weight decay.
09/16/2024