Tag: Microsoft
VS Code update treats Copilot as “out-of-the-box” feature
Microsoft has updated Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to version 1.97, in which the company said that GitHub […]
More React, more app-like: GitHub engineer outlines future UI for its DevOps platform
A GitHub software engineer has described the past, present and future of UI (user interface) at GitHub, including […]
GitHub debuts limited Copilot free tier in a crowded market
GitHub has introduced a free tier for its AI coding assistant, with options for Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet […]
Microsoft fixed slow package restore in .NET 9.0, but with annoying early bugs
Microsoft has reported a remarkable 15 times speed-up in package restore when using Nuget 6.12, introduced with the […]
.NET 9 released with updated frameworks and tooling, but Microsoft factor both helps and hurts the platform
Microsoft has released .NET 9, along with Visual Studio 2022 17.12 and updates to a host of associated […]
ISO C++ Chair Herb Sutter leaves Microsoft, declares forthcoming C++ 26 ‘most impactful release since C++11’
Herb Sutter, chair of the ISO C++ ISO C++ committee, has left Microsoft after 22 years, to become […]
Visual Basic 6 recreated as a cross-platform IDE in modern .NET – just ‘for fun’
Software engineer Bartosz Korczynski has created what he calls “a recreation of the classic Visual Basic 6 (VB […]
Microsoft engineer describes a flaw in Git that can hugely bloat repositories – fix is on the way
A flaw in the way Git calculates the difference between versions of the same file can bloat repositories […]
VS Code migration to ECMAScript modules ‘massively improves startup performance’ – but extensions left behind for now
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.94, the first stable version to be built with ECMAScript Modules (ESM), […]
Microsoft previews unified .NET API for AI, and delivers .NET 9 Release Candidate with go-live license
Microsoft has previewed an AI extension library which it hopes will form a unified API for AI programming […]