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Announcing Data Wrangler: Code-centric viewing and cleaning of tabular data in Visual Studio Code

May 7, 2024 May 7, 2024 05/7/24

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the Data Wrangler extension for Visual Studio Code! Data Wrangler is a free extension that offers data viewing and cleaning that is directly integrated into VS Code and the Jupyter extension. It provides a rich user interface to view and analyze your data, show insightful column ...

Python

Package Management & improved .NET Aspire support come to C# Dev Kit

May 7, 2024 May 7, 2024 05/7/24

Wendy Breiding (SHE/HER)

Explore the new features and enhancements in the latest version of C# Dev Kit including NuGet package management, .NET Aspire project support, and much more.

.NET Blog

Azure DevOps Server 2022 Update 2 RC now available

May 7, 2024 May 7, 2024 05/7/24

Gloridel Morales

Today we're thrilled to announce the release candidate (RC) of Azure DevOps Server 2022.2! This release includes new features that have been previously released in our hosted version of the product. Here are a few of the highlights: There are more features with this release, and you can read all about those features in our release ...

Azure DevOps Blog

Awaiting a set of handles with a timeout, part 6: Capturing the handles efficiently

May 7, 2024 May 7, 2024 05/7/24

Raymond Chen

SFINAE'ing the case of a random-access(ish) iterator.

The Old New Thing

Using GitHub Copilot as your Coding GPS

May 7, 2024 May 7, 2024 05/7/24

Cynthia Zanoni , Laurent Bugnion

In this series, we delve into GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio, showcasing how it aids coding. GitHub Copilot functions as a coding GPS, guiding you through software development in Visual Studio. In our new short video, Bruno Capuano shows how this smart coding assistant boosts coding efficiency and quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Visual Studio Blog

Microsoft AI Powering DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge

May 6, 2024 May 6, 2024 05/6/24

William Chappell

One of the most promising applications of advanced AI is its ability to help combat cyberattacks from enhanced threat intelligence to AI-powered remediation. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched the AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) that will bring together the foremost experts in AI and cybersecurity to develop ...

Azure Government

Awaiting a set of handles with a timeout, part 5: Generalizing the awaiter

May 6, 2024 May 6, 2024 05/6/24

Raymond Chen

Fitting into existing patterns.

The Old New Thing

Generating API Manifests for Semantic Kernel

May 3, 2024 May 3, 2024 05/3/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey , Vincent Biret

Hi everyone! Today we’re featuring a guest author from another team in Microsoft on our Semantic Kernel blog. Today's topic will cover how to utilize API's manifests. An API manifest is a way to store the dependencies that an application has on HTTP APIs. It contains characteristics of those dependencies including links to API ...

Semantic Kernel

New Checks Since Visual Studio 2022 17.8

May 3, 2024 May 3, 2024 05/3/24

Gabor Horvath

The C++ team is committed to making your C++ coding experience as safe as possible. In the last couple of releases, we added new safety checks based on the requests of internal customers like the Windows group. Below is the overview of the new checks. For additional information for each of the checks, please refer to the linked help documents...

C++ Team Blog