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Introducing Our Keynote Speakers at OCX 2024 As we approach the Open Community Experience (OCX), scheduled to take place from 22-24 October in Mainz, Germany, my anticipation and excitement continues to build. This event marks a new chapter for our com...

Securing the Future of Open Source: Launching the Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group Today marks an important milestone for the open source community. As open source software continues to drive innovation across industries, ensuring its relevance...

We’re excited to share the latest changes in Visual Studio’s code coverage components. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out our previous blog posts: What’s New in Our Code Coverage Tooling? and Code coverage features in Visual Studio En...

Why you should join me at Open Community Experience in Mainz if you are interested in Dataspaces Why am I heading to the Open Community Experience (OCX) 2024 in Mainz? Simple—it's where innovation meets collaboration, and where the future of ope...

One of our main goals is to help you and your team collaborate more effectively and efficiently on your software projects. That’s why we are constantly improving our Version Control features, especially the ones related to the pull request workfl...

Hashtag Jakarta EE #247 Welcome to issue number two hundred and forty-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! A lot of CFPs for conferences are closing around these days, so make sure you submit to have a chance to speak at these events. Here are a couple of...

BED-Con 2024 This was my first time at Berlin Expert Days. This conference is organized by the community for the community over two days. The venue is pretty cool with a modern exterior and slightly older interior and well sized for the conference. The...

Jalapeño 2024 It was finally time for the first edition of Jalapeño. It was initially planned to be in 2020, but because of the pandemic, it was delayed until this year. But it was absolutely worth the wait! Located in a beach resort in Puerto Vallar...

Are you tired of the hassle of manually configuring your development environment every time you want to launch multiple projects? We’ve heard your feedback and are thrilled to announce a feature in Visual Studio that simplifies your workflow. The...

Are you developing .NET applications for Arm-based processors? Do you want to take advantage of the performance and power efficiency of running your apps natively on Arm64 devices? If so, you’ll be happy to hear that Visual Studio 2022 17.11 has ...

Ready to Hack the Future? Join the Eclipse SDV Hackathon Chapter 2 – Register Now! We’re excited to announce the return of the Eclipse SDV Hackathon! This year, we’re back and bigger than ever, hosted by Harman International at the ICF Event...

Visual Studio 2022 introduced a new XAML designer for building WPF apps, with a goal of increasing the performance and reliability of the designer. The new designer can quickly open a XAML file by using WPF’s built-in parser and display. This new des...

Hashtag Jakarta EE #246 Welcome to issue number two hundred and forty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week was all about visiting Java User Groups for me. Speaking at four JUGs in four different cities, in four different states in four days involv...

Gateway JUG 2024 The fourth stop on the US South JUG Tour 2024 with Jakarta EE as at the event at the St. Louis Java User Group. I did the Jakarta EE 11 presentation sprinkled with a couple of AI demos here as well. The St. Louis JUG currently runs the...

The Power of Open Source Software in Shaping the Future of Vehicles The automotive sector is undergoing a profound transformation fueled by the convergence of software defined vehicles (SDVs) and open source software. This groundbreaking shift is poise...

JavaMUG 2024 Third stop on the US South JUG Tour 2024 with Jakarta EE was Dallas and JavaMUG. This time I had chosen a hotel within walking distance from the venue. At least for a Norwegian. I am not so sure if 30 min walk is considered walking distanc...

We continue to invest in the VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK to allow users like you to create extensions that run faster and smoother than ever before! VisualStudio.Extensibility helps you build extensions that run outside the main Visual Studio IDE pr...

JaxJUG 2024 The second stop of the US South JUG Tour 2024 with Jakarta EE was Jacksonville Java User Group, or JaxJUG, for short. This time, I was very careful making sure that the address I gave to the Uber was the correct one and made it to the venue...

If you’re working on a large and complex solution, you might find yourself overwhelmed by the number of results when you use code search in Visual Studio. You might be looking for a specific class, method, or variable, but end up scrolling throug...

Addressing Automotive Functional Safety in an Open Source Environment An Interview with Leonardo Rossetti and Martin Schleicher, Co-Leads of the New Eclipse SDV Special Interest Group “Automotive Processes for Open Source Software”The Eclipse Softw...