"TypeScript 5.8 introduces a number of optimizations that can both improve the time to build up a program, and also to update a program based on a file change in either --watch mode or editor scenarios."
"AI Toolkit extension for VS code now supports external local models via Ollama. It has also added support remote hosted models using API keys for OpenAI, Google and Anthropic."
Microsoft's Visual Studio dev team has been working on the next release of its flagship IDE, Visual Studio 2022 v17.13, with an emphasis on improving the GitHub Copilot AI-powered coding assistant.
As Chinese AI tech shakes up the entire industry with new breakthroughs, a new AI-powered IDE from a Beijing firm is flying under the radar, based on the same tech that powers Visual Studio Code and many other code editors.
In an IDE AI update, this week we see JetBrains introducing a new coding agent called Junie just as Microsoft unveiled a free tier for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio.
Only at v0.4, Microsoft's AutoGen framework for agentic AI -- the hottest new trend in AI development -- has already undergone a complete revamp, going to an asynchronous, event-driven architecture.
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 10-14, 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, v1.96, 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 3.1, 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.