Topic: microsoft
Microsoft reveals first preview for .NET 8
The focus of .NET 7 was to unify .NET Core and .NET Framework into a single .NET. Now that this has been achieved, .NET 8 is free to focus on other areas. According to Microsoft, with .NET 8 they want to focus on the developer experience for cloud-native developers and cross-platform development with MAUI and … continue reading
Visual Studio 2022 17.5 now available
Microsoft incorporated a number of features into this release that are designed to reduce friction in daily development workflows. A number of productivity enhancements were made, including all-in-one search and Intent-Based Suggestions. All-in-one search enables Visual Studio users to find files, types, and members in code. With this release the company has significantly improved the … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Prompt Engine
Microsoft’s prompt engine is a library for helping developers create prompts for Large Language Models (LLMs). Prompt engineering, a technique for enabling specific behavior out of LLMs like GPT-3 and Codex, involves crafting inputs that coax the model to produce certain kinds of outputs. Also, few-shot prompting is a discipline that provides examples of inputs … continue reading
Microsoft announces Visual Studio extension for upgrading .NET projects
The team at Microsoft has announced an extension in Visual Studio that allows users to upgrade their .NET Framework or .NET Core web and desktop applications directly within Visual Studio. According to the blog post, if a user’s application is built for .NET Framework or .NET Core, now is the time to upgrade to .NET … continue reading
ChatGPT this week: ChatGPT + Bing | Google’s AI attempt doesn’t go as planned | Using ChatGPT in technical interviews?
You may be familiar with the quote “software is eating the world,” but as of late it seems more like “ChatGPT is eating the world.” Ever since its public debut, it’s dominated front pages of the news, sparked many conversations about how AI will shape the future, and if you look at the trending page … continue reading
Microsoft rolls out ChatGPT-enabled version of Bing
While it has been speculated for a few weeks that Microsoft had plans to integrate ChatGPT into its search engine Bing, the company has finally made it official. This comes shortly after the company had made a large multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Search rival Google also just announced its own … continue reading
TypeScript 5.0 beta adds support for Decorators
Microsoft announced the beta for TypeScript 5.0, the next major release of the JavaScript-based programming language. With 5.0, Microsoft is working to make the language smaller, simpler, and faster. For example, the 5.0 beta takes 81% of the time to build VS Code that would take TypeScript 4.9 to do so. These performance improvements were … continue reading
Windows Terminal preview 1.17 adds ability to customize dropdown menu
Fans of Windows Terminal now have a new preview release to enjoy. Windows Terminal is a terminal application that offers features like multiple tabs, panes, Unicode support, and custom themes. The Windows Terminal preview is now at version 1.17 and Windows Terminal has been updated to version 1.16. As a reminder, new features in 1.16 … continue reading
Microsoft makes multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI, extending existing partnership
OpenAI and Microsoft have announced that they are expanding their current partnership. This comes on the heels of OpenAI’s public release of ChatGPT at the tailend of last year, which has been making waves throughout the industry as people experiment with its capabilities. Microsoft had previously made large investments in OpenAI in 2019 and 2021, … continue reading
.NET Toolkit 8.1 released
Microsoft announced version 8.1 of the .NET Community Toolkit, which includes highly requested features, bug fixes, and performance improvements to the MVVM Toolkit source generators. The new version includes custom attributes for ‘[ObservableProperty].’ With no constraints on the types of attributes that this feature supports, this allows complete flexibility in annotations for generated properties, all … continue reading
LEADTOOLS v22 released with .NET 7 support
LEADTOOLS released version 22 of its platform, which adds support for .NET 7, eSignatures, OCR Enhancements, Medical Web Viewer updates, and more. LEADTOOLS is a suite of software development tools that can be used to create applications for document, medical, and multimedia imaging. It includes software components for capturing, manipulating, and viewing images, as well … continue reading
Microsoft releases Graph Developer Proxy preview v0.3
Microsoft today released a new preview version of the Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy, which enables developers to verify that their app correctly handles errors that can occur when it is being used at scale. This release introduces support for simulating errors on Microsoft Graph and other APIs as well as contextual guidance to help improve … continue reading
