Tag: Microsoft
Microsoft ships first preview of .NET 8 and ‘Blazor United,’ releases new Visual Studio
Microsoft has delivered a big batch of developer tool updates, including the first preview of .NET 8, which […]
Microsoft identifies three big issues in WPF – but says it can only fix one or two
Microsoft has published a roadmap for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), identifying three big modernization issues, but the extent […]
GitHub claims new smarter Copilot will block insecure code, writes 40-60% of developer output
GitHub has updated its Copilot coding assistant with new features including a “vulnerability filtering system” to block insecure […]
ISO C++ Standards Committee completes technical work on C++23
The convener and chair of the ISO C++ Standards Committee, Microsoft software architect Herb Sutter, says the technical […]
Microsoft updates its .NET language strategy, keeps Visual Basic alive but near-frozen
Microsoft has updated its .NET language strategy for the first time since 2017, the most notable change being […]
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 […]