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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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.
03/05/2025
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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.
02/12/2025
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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.
01/27/2025
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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.
01/24/2025
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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.
01/17/2025
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Microsoft removed waitlist restrictions for some of its most advanced GenAI tech, Copilot Workspace, recently made available as a technical preview.
01/13/2025
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They work in GitHub.com, the Visual Studio IDE and VS Code, where developers can access various services, perform actions and generate files without leaving those dev environments.
01/08/2025
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The free plan restricts the number of completions, chat requests and access to AI models, being suitable for occasional users and small projects.
12/18/2024
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No matter what, some systems simply won't divulge exactly what in the current conversation caused them to balk, simply pointing to vague policies and generic guidance.
12/09/2024
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At this week's Microsoft Ignite conference, the Visual Studio team showed off a future AI-powered IDE that will leverage GitHub Copilot for legacy app .NET upgrades, along with several more cutting-edge features.
11/22/2024
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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 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 introduced a new guided chat experience within GitHub Copilot, aiming to make developer interactions with AI more natural and effective.
11/07/2024
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With JetBrains making its Rider and WebStorm IDEs freely available for non-commercial use, Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition has a new competitor, not to mention Visual Studio Code. So what's a (non-enterprise) .NET-centric developer to do now?
10/28/2024
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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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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