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Q&A
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.
04/08/2025
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News
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.
04/07/2025
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News
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.
04/07/2025
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Agent Mode provides an autonomous editing experience where Copilot plans and executes tasks to fulfill requests. It determines relevant files, applies code changes, suggests terminal commands, and iterates to resolve issues, all while keeping users in control to review and confirm actions.
04/04/2025
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News
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.
04/03/2025
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News
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.
04/02/2025
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Q&A
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.
04/01/2025
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The Data Science Lab
Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the linear support vector regression (linear SVR) technique, where the goal is to predict a single numeric value. A linear SVR model uses an unusual error/loss function and cannot be trained using standard simple techniques, and so evolutionary optimization training is used.
04/01/2025
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News
Along with replacing software developers and possibly killing humanity, advanced AI is seen by many as a death knell for the do-it-yourself, low-code/no-code tooling industry, but a new report belies that notion.
03/27/2025
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In-Depth
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.
03/26/2025
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News
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.
03/25/2025
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News
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.
03/24/2025
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News
AI powerhouse NVIDIA flexed its muscle at its GTC 2025 conference this week where several partnerships with Microsoft were announced, mostly concerning Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry offering.
03/21/2025
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News
Microsoft's VS Code dev team rides the vibe.
03/20/2025
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News
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.
03/19/2025
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News
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.
03/18/2025
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The Data Science Lab
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."
03/17/2025
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News
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.
03/14/2025
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News
Microsoft is expanding functionality for agentic AI into its Azure AI Foundry platform, furthering one of the hottest areas of development right now where AI controls computers just like humans.
03/13/2025
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News
Things are happening quickly in the Microsoft-centric AI dev space, with the company previewing new AI features in Visual Studio 2022 ranging from a new .NET AI template to GPT-4o Copilot Code Completion.
03/12/2025