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Just-in-time refactoring made even easier with IntelliCode auto suggested code for C#

May 11, 2022 May 11, 2022 05/11/22
Peter Groenewegen
Have you ever wondered if there was a tool to help you with routine code tasks like writing common constructors or inserting similar code to a few different spots? Maybe you even know some code actions or refactorings that can help you. But at the time you could have used the code action, you typed the change instead, because you remembered ...

Typing Less, Coding More: How we delivered IntelliCode whole line completions with a transformer model

February 16, 2022 Feb 16, 2022 02/16/22
Shengyu Fu
Introduction Great code completions make you more productive while composing your code. Visual Studio 2022 now automatically completes C# code up to a whole line at a time, using a rich knowledge of your coding context. We have also released the IntelliCode Completions extension in Visual Studio Code (VSCode) to speed up coding in Python/...

The making of Visual Studio IntelliCode’s first deep learning model: a research journey

August 24, 2020 Aug 24, 2020 08/24/20
Shengyu Fu
After leveraging technologies like Azure Machine Learning and ONNX Runtime, IntelliCode has successfully shipped the first deep learning model for all the IntelliCode Python users in Visual Studio Code. This blogpost gives a detailed account of the journey from research to model deployment.