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.

   AI unsurprisingly is all over keynotes that Microsoft execs will helm to kick off the Visual Studio Live developer conference in Las Vegas, March , which the company described as a must attend event.

   Microsoft removed waitlist restrictions for some of its most advanced GenAI tech, Copilot Workspace, recently made available as a technical preview.

   Having introduced its Modern Web Application MWA pattern for Java developers late last year, Microsoft is now promoting the cloud centric concept further by highlighting the benefits of the Strangler Fig approach.

   Serving tens of millions of developers, Microsoft’s dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code shipped a new release with three major new features, including a full language server mode for Pylance, which provides language specific smarts, including IntelliSense.

   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.

   The free plan restricts the number of completions, chat requests and access to AI models, being suitable for occasional users and small projects.

   Microsoft improved on its new Copilot Edit functionality in the latest release of Visual Studio Code, v ., its open source based code editor that has become the most popular in the world according to many surveys.

   In its latest annual developer ecosystem report, JetBrains introduced a new Language Promise Index topped by Microsoft’s TypeScript programming language.

   Claiming an industry first, Userware announced a drag and drop XAML designer for use in VS Code, coming with OpenSilver . , the latest iteration of the open source implementation of Microsoft’s long deprecated and oft mourned rich client development platform, Silverlight.

   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.

   We want to try to design from Day One, even Day Zero, with reusability in mind, says Blazor expert Allen Conway in imparting his expertise to an audience of hundreds in an online tech event on Tuesday.

   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.

   Eschewing the term Copilot, Microsoft introduced a new AI powered tool for PowerShell called AI Shell, available in preview.

   GitHub says new research proves its Copilot AI tool can improve code quality, following earlier reports that said it boosts developer productivity and has a retort for contrarian studies.

   The brand new Visual Studio v . 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 . Sonnet model from Anthropic that is available in VS Code.

   Microsoft’s early embrace of advanced AI in its dev tooling continues apace with the new public preview of SQL database in Microsoft Fabric, the company’s analytics data platform.

   The company will infuse multi agent runtime tech developed in its AutoGen research project into its production ready Semantic Kernel SDK, both open source.

   Uno Platform provided a new take on visual designers for .NET app development, claiming a breakthrough that changes code at runtime rather than the design stage.

   Microsoft just shipped Visual Studio v ., focusing on enhancing developer experiences specifically for .NET projects and introducing new AI productivity features. This update incorporates numerous developer requested enhancements aimed at simplifying workflows and improving overall...

   Microsoft shipped .NET today with the dev team highlighting .NET Aspire and AI in a keynote and follow on sessions of the livestreamed launch event.

   Microsoft introduced a new guided chat experience within GitHub Copilot, aiming to make developer interactions with AI more natural and effective.

   Microsoft announced its open source Semantic Kernel toolkit for integrating advanced AI models into applications is now available on the Amazon Bedrock managed service.

   In announcing SSMS Preview this week, Microsoft revealed Copilot AI for the tool is also being previewed, privately.

   Microsoft’s October release of Visual Studio Code v . focuses on enhancing the AI driven development experience through GitHub Copilot. AI related updates affect large code edits, multi account support, and a more accessible Copilot Chat.

   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.

   Third party .NET centric dev UI tooling specialist Syncfusion this week announced the open sourcing of controls for .NET MAUI, the evolution of Xamarin.Forms that adds support for building desktop apps.

   The List Label reporting tool by combit helps devs integrate advanced reporting, printing and exporting capabilities into their apps for web, cloud and desktop environments with minimal code.

   Since announcing Visual Studio v . in August, Microsoft’s dev team has been busy shipping a series of AI heavy previews for the next edition.

   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.

   Cybersecurity threat actors keep leveraging Microsoft development tooling as attack vectors, with the new one coming via malware phishing.

   The Spring Tools now show code lenses above these expressions that allow you to quickly let GitHub Copilot explain those statements for you.

   The basic idea is to provide unified API abstractions, especially for idiomatic C code, to help platform developers and others work with any provider with standard implementations for caching, telemetry, tool calling and other common tasks.

   Visual Studio developers can now download the SDK for .NET Release Candidate with a go live license, meaning devs get Microsoft support for production applications even before the framework reaches general availability next month.

   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.

   Millions of Python developers using VS Code find updated data science functionality in the new release of version ., the September edition of Microsoft’s open source based editor.

   Further leveraging the relationship that vaulted Microsoft and OpenAI into leadership positions in the AI era, Microsoft this week announced stable versions of two new OpenAI libraries.

   Microsoft has long embraced the OpenAPI Specification formerly known as Swagger for describing APIs, and it’s now taking that support to the next level with a new online resource.

   Java on Visual Studio Code gets a new tool to its extension pack, while Java on Azure upgraded the Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ and more in new regular updates for both properties.

   Microsoft has long acknowledged third party vendor contributions to dev tooling ecosystems like Blazor and is now doing the same for its newly open sourced .NET Smart Components.

   New extension pack bundles wildly popular tools for Python development, assisted by the AI powered GitHub Copilot and a data wrangler.

   For the th year in a row, Visual Studio Magazine readers have chosen the best tools and services for developers. The winners are honored in categories, from component suites to testing tools to AI helpers.

   Several reports have answered yes to the question of whether GitHub Copilot improves developer productivity. A new one says no.

   We are excited to announce support for one of our most requested features: you can now discover and run Django unit tests through the Test Explorer

   The most disruptive change we are making in this release is dropping support for .NET Framework.

   Microsoft shipped the first release candidate for .NET, which is nearing feature completeness and production readiness in advance of its November debut.

   The company urges devs to switch to Windows App SDK and WinUI because UWP is no longer under active development.

   Devs can now customize code generation, enjoy enhanced Chat experiences and much more.

   The Windows Community Toolkit advanced to version . , adding new features, improving existing controls and making dependency changes.

   The .NET Community Toolkit is Microsoft’s latest dev tooling to get native ahead of time compilation, continuing a years long push for that capability across the board.