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Microsoft updates Visual Studio Code, unveils VS Code Server
Visual Studio Code 1.69 introduces the Command Center, while the VS Code Server streamlines connections to remote development machines.
Why you should modernize search technologies
Important knowledge is scattered throughout the organization. Simplify everything, make it easy for employees to find what they need, and use machine learning.
What is Visual Studio Code? Microsoft’s extensible code editor
Come for the fast editing. Stay for the debugging, source code management support, and huge ecosystem of extensions.
Choosing your Java IDE
Which Java IDE is best? Compare IntelliJ IDEA , Eclipse, and NetBeans for features, usability, and compatibility with your favorite tools and frameworks.
Using Azure Communication Services for email
Microsoft’s Azure multichannel communications APIs get support for email.
Developers value flexibility, tech stack in a hybrid working world
Stack Overflow’s latest developer survey shows that most developers are working remotely and favor a flexible working environment where they can use their favorite technologies.
JetBrains Fleet: The future of IDEs?
With distributed and remote options and advanced collaboration capabilities, JetBrains Fleet could be the best thing for software developers since Visual Studio Code. But it’s still in the works.
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What’s new in Microsoft Azure’s NLP AI services
Microsoft is finally close to delivering its long-promised natural user interfaces. Here’s how you can build them into your code.
GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant is now generally available
Copilot is available via subscription for commercial developers, free to students and maintainers of popular open source projects.
Microsoft’s complicated dance with open source
The decision to make the C# extension in Visual Studio Code proprietary is raising hackles, but Microsoft is still a consistent supporter of open source.
C# extension for Visual Studio Code set for LSP overhaul
Microsoft will switch the C# extension to the Language Server Protocol to enable more advanced tooling, including closed-source capabilities such as IntelliSense.
Building collaborative apps with Teams Live Share
Microsoft is expanding access to its Fluid Framework real-time collaboration tools with a new application platform for Teams developers.
Visual Studio Code 1.68 identifies deprecated extensions
May 2022 edition of Microsoft’s open source code editor now alerts users to extensions that are no longer maintained or have been deprecated in favor of another extension.
Review: Visual Studio Code shines for Java
With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA.
Cloud complicates development, but GraphQL and supergraphs offer hope
Application development in the cloud is a complex mess of countless moving parts. GraphQL and supergraphs could make life a whole lot easier for developers.
Microsoft Dev Box: Your development workstation on Azure
Build 2022 had a developer focus, with new tools to make it easier to write code in a world of hybrid work. Dev Box promises to make your development environments easier to manage.
GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant due this summer
Microsoft also unveiled cloud-based Dev Box workspaces, Power Pages low-code web development, Azure Container Apps, and more at its annual Build developer conference.
