Tag: Microsoft
New Visual Studio preview has intent-based suggestions, spell check and Markdown editor but devs push for new designer
Microsoft has released preview 3 of Visual Studio 17.5, with new features including a spell checker for comments, […]
Improved Durable Functions coming to Microsoft’s Azure Functions service – but what about cold start?
Microsoft’s Anirudh Garg, who leads the engineering team for Azure Functions, has posted abut planned improvements to the […]
Researchers demonstrate a thousand installs of fake VS Code extension in 48 hours
Researchers at Aqua Security have shown how easy it is to distribute an extension to Visual Studio Code […]
What if C# were like Go? Open source bflat has ‘Go-inspired tooling’, now targets bare metal
Updated Developer Michal Strehovský has released bflat 7.0.1, with support for C# applications that run on bare metal […]
Microsoft plans pre-compiled queries for Entity Framework, and may replace old and crufty .NET SQL Server provider
Microsoft has published its plans for Entity Framework (EF) Core 8, its .NET ORM (Object-relational mapping) library, including […]
Microsoft worries Windows desktop developers by calling WPF a ‘community run project’
A Microsoft .NET Community Standup has left Windows desktop developers wondering what kind of future, if any, the […]
Visual Studio Code 1.74 released with remote tunnelling from anywhere
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.74 with new features including remote tunnelling in the stable release (though […]
Microsoft enhances tooling for another framework that will not die: Web Forms
Visual Studio 2022 includes a surprising new feature: a new preview/visual designer for ASP.Net Web Forms. Web Forms […]
AWS CodeWhisperer AI coding service updated with new languages, enterprise login, and more
This is a big week for AWS, with its Re:invent conference under way in Las Vegas. An early […]
Developing on Windows on Arm: Surface Pro 9 or DevKit, or maybe a Mac?
Microsoft is making a push, of sorts, for Windows Arm64 – the latest in a number of attempts, […]