Visual Studio

Microsoft has announced the release of a new update for Visual Studio 2022. The version 17.5 of the IDE brings new AI-powered coding suggestions, an Accessibility Checker feature, improved code search experience, and much more. Microsoft has introduced support for AI-powered “Intent-based” suggestions in Visual Studio 2022. The new feature uses Machine Learning algorithms to…

Amazon recently announced the general availability of license-included Visual Studio software on Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances. This means that organizations no longer need to separately purchase and install Visual Studio for their EC2 instances, which are the Amazon Web Services versions of cloud-based virtual machines. “Amazon EC2 provides a broad choice of instances, and customers not…

Microsoft has announced the release of version 1.71 of its Visual Studio Code editor. The latest update brings some improvements for the merger editor, UI changes, and support for snap layouts on Windows 11. With this release, developers can now click the “Open in Merge Editor” button to quickly switch between the text and merge…

Microsoft has announced the release of Visual Studio 2022 17.3. The latest update brings a slew of new features for developers such as support for .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI), a new Teams Toolkit, and Azure Container Apps. First up, Microsoft has introduced support for .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) support in Visual Studio…

Microsoft has recently released a new update (version 1.69) for Visual Studio Code. The big highlight of this release is a private preview of the Visual Studio Code Server, a backend service that lets developers securely connect to the editor via a web browser. The CLI of the VS Code Server creates a tunnel between…

This past July 6, 2022, Amazon announced the release of two new technologies that enable the streamlined deployment of .NET applications on Amazon Web Services. The new AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio as well as the new AWS Deploy Tool for the .NET CLI enable you to get your .NET application up and running in…

Last week, Microsoft announced the first preview release of .NET 7, alongside ASP.NET Core 7 Preview 1 and Entity Framework 7 Preview 1. The Redmond giant highlighted that this version of its .NET software development platform brings improved support for cloud-native applications and containers. “Today, we are excited to announce the next milestone in the…

Microsoft has a new development platform that is not explicitly tied to any single device and allows you to create AR/VR experiences from multiple platforms.

Microsoft has a dream, a dream that developers will build apps for all of its platforms with a single base of code. The company, for years, pitched the write once, run anywhere, idea to developers of Windows applications but the dream never materialized in a way that was widely adopted. The most notable attempt at…

There is little doubt Microsoft is a developer company. There is, however, serious doubt about Microsoft being a company which supports indie app developers. The demise of UWP and its confusing twists and turns is no secret and is now old news. As that news was bouncing around the Microsoft blogs, UWP developers’ dedication was…

In somewhat an unusual move, Microsoft has announced dates for its Build conference in 2020. In previous years, the company has held that information back until a couple of months before the event but that’s changing this year.