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Announcing the stable release of the official OpenAI library for .NET
Discover the stable release of the official OpenAI library for .NET, empowering developers to integrate cutting-edge AI models, including GPT-4o & o1, into their .NET applications. The post Announcing the stable release of the official OpenAI library f...
2024-10-01 19:00
Visual Studio 2022 – Recent performance enhancements 
Visual Studio 2022 continues to be faster with each version. In this blog post we will highlight a couple of the more significant enhancements you’ll experience in 17.11, such as a more efficient C# language service, faster conditional breakpoints an...
2024-10-01 14:32
Visual Studio at Unreal Fest Seattle 2024
Join us in-person at Unreal Fest Seattle 2024 with an in-depth look at how Visual Studio and GitHub Copilot can help modernize your Unreal Engine game development. Session Title: Modernizing Game Development with Visual Studio and AI Session Info: Octo...
2024-09-30 18:00
Effortless Instrumentation profiling with Persistent Target Selection
Ever wished to assess your code’s performance without repeatedly choosing the target process or executable for each instrumentation profiling session? If so, you’re among many developers who find this task cumbersome and prone to errors, es...
2024-09-30 11:00
Tailored Code Completions for C++ Developers: Fine-tuned models are now in limited public beta for GitHub Copilot Enterprise
GitHub recently announced that custom models are available for GitHub Copilot Enterprise users in limited public beta. Custom models are fine-tuned on your organization’s proprietary codebases and coding practices to provide more contextually relevan...
2024-09-26 15:27
Creating a React TODO app in Visual Studio 2022
In this tutorial we will create a React front-end, with JavaScript, of a TODO web app using a Visual Studio 2022. To get started install Visual Studio with the Node.js development workload. This will include the JavaScript/TypeScript (JSTS) projects an...
2024-09-26 10:00
Getting started with testing and .NET Aspire
Learn how to improve your software development process with automated testing in .NET Aspire. This post covers the basics of getting started, writing tests for distributed applications, and ensuring your services run smoothly. The post Getting started ...
2024-09-25 17:05
Organize Your Breakpoints like a pro
Do you feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of breakpoints in your Visual Studio project? Wish you could categorize and toggle them on and off with ease? The new breakpoint group feature in Visual Studio 2022 is here to transform your debugging experie...
2024-09-25 10:00
Next-Gen Code Coverage in Visual Studio: Enhanced C++ Support and Security
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...
2024-09-24 10:00
Level up your collaborations with the pull request experience in Visual Studio
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...
2024-09-23 10:00
Join the .NET Smart Components ecosystem
The .NET Smart Components are now open source to help library authors build and share easy-to-use AI-powered features, including new AI-powered components from Telerik, DevExpress, and Syncfusion. The post Join the .NET Smart Components ecosystem appea...
2024-09-19 19:00
Improving GitHub Copilot Completions in Visual Studio for C# Developers
Learn about the latest GitHub Copilot improvements for C# developers The post Improving GitHub Copilot Completions in Visual Studio for C# Developers appeared first on .NET Blog.
2024-09-18 17:05
Multi-Project Launch Configuration
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...
2024-09-18 16:08
How to run .NET apps natively on Arm64 devices
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 ...
2024-09-17 10:00
Understanding the behavior of the XAML Designer with abstract base classes
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...
2024-09-16 13:49
What’s New in Visual Studio Build Insights 17.12
We are excited to announce the latest Visual Studio 2022 17.12 Build Insights features. These updates provide developers with greater control and accuracy when diagnosing and optimizing C++ builds directly within Visual Studio. Download Visual Studio 2...
2024-09-12 20:56
Android Asset Packs for .NET & .NET MAUI Android Apps
Introducing a new way to build and deploy Android Asset Packs using .NET for Android and .NET MAUI. If your app has allot of AndroidAsset items this feature will make your life easier. The post Android Asset Packs for .NET & .NET MAUI Android Apps ...
2024-09-12 17:05
Microsoft C++ Team at CppCon 2024
  As always our team will be at CppCon this year with a host of presentations. Many of us will also be present at our team’s booth in the main hall for the first four days of the conference. Come say hi and let us know if you have any questions ...
2024-09-12 17:03
Performance Improvements in .NET 9
Take an in-depth tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 9. The post Performance Improvements in .NET 9 appeared first on .NET Blog.
2024-09-12 10:50
VisualStudio.Extensibility 17.11: Settings and more Remote UI support
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...
2024-09-12 10:00