Uno Platform, a .NET-centric open source project for building single-codebase apps across multiple platforms, this week announced v6.0 of its flagship offering, which introduces a zero-install, web-based IDE for rapid cross-platform development, alongside a modernized app architecture that embraces MVU and .NET-style extensions.
"What MCP server would be helpful to use with Copilot in Visual Studio? I want to write one."
Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression with two-way interactions between predictor variables. Compared to standard linear regression, which predicts a single numeric value based only on a linear combination of predictor values, linear regression with interactions can handle more complex data while retaining a high level of model interpretability.
- By James McCaffrey
- 05/02/2025
Microsoft announced the availability of .NET Aspire 9.2 and the second preview of the .NET AI Chat Web App template, highlighting new capabilities that bring cloud-native orchestration and AI integration closer together in the .NET ecosystem.
Preview 3 features next edit suggestions -- or tab, tab, tab coding -- following previous previews of GPT-4o code completions and assorted Copilot enhancements.
While Preview 3 comes with a wide array of incremental improvements across performance, libraries, CLI tooling, ASP.NET Core/Blazor and more, it doesn't introduce any major new features.
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) for agentic AI has gained much traction since being introduced by Anthropic last November, and now it has a C# SDK.
Expert Blazor programmer Michael Washington' will present an upcoming developer education session on building high-performance business applications using Blazor, focusing on core concepts, integration with .NET, and best practices for development.
GitHub chose Microsoft's 50th anniversary to highlight a bevy of Copilot enhancements that further the practice of "vibe coding," where AI does all the drudgery according to human supervision.
Microsoft had a great thing going when it had GitHub Copilot all to itself in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code thanks to its ownership of GitHub, but that's eroding.
Microsoft shipped Windows Community Toolkit v8.2, an incremental update to the open-source collection of helper functions and other resources designed to simplify the development of Windows applications. The main new feature is support for native ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation.
Unsurprisingly, GitHub Copilot resources are front-and-center in Microsoft's new Visual Studio Hub, a one-stop-shop for all things concerning your favorite IDE.
At the Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ developer conference set for August, Rockford Lhotka will explain the ins and outs of authentication across Blazor Server, WebAssembly, and .NET MAUI Hybrid apps, and show how to use identity and claims to customize application behavior through fine-grained authorization.
Microsoft's latest Visual Studio preview facilitates "vibe coding," where developers mainly use GitHub Copilot AI to do all the programming in accordance with spoken or typed instructions.
Blazor creator Steve Sanderson presented a keynote at the recent NDC London 2025 conference where he previewed the future of .NET application development with smaller AI models and autonomous agents, along with showcasing a new Blazor voice assistant project demonstrating cutting-edge functionality.
Microsoft last week closed a feedback request for a universal UI builder as capable as WinForms, putting an end to a long-sought coding nirvana with a decision that angered some developers.
According to the release notes, however, most dev-team attention was devoted to small fixes, features and functionality, as was the case in Preview 1, which shipped a few weeks ago.
OpenSilver, an open-source, WebAssembly-based reimplementation of the deprecated Microsoft Silverlight, now supports .NET MAUI Hybrid for cross-platform web and native app development.
Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of neural network quantile regression. The goal of a quantile regression problem is to predict a single numeric value with an assurance such as, "The predicted y value is 0.6789 and there's roughly a 90% chance the prediction will be greater than or equal to the true y value."
- By James McCaffrey
- 03/17/2025
Microsoft's Mads Kristensen took to social media to ask Visual Studio developers to share their favorite prompts to get GitHub Copilot AI to improve their code.