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Microsoft Releases DeepSpeed-FastGen for High-Throughput Text Generation
Microsoft has announced the alpha release of DeepSpeed-FastGen, a system designed to improve the deployment and serving of large language models (LLMs). DeepSpeed-FastGen is the synergistic composition of DeepSpeed-MII and DeepSpeed-Inference . DeepSpeed-FastGen is based on the Dynamic SplitFuse technique. The system currently supports several model architectures.
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Polly v8 .NET Resilience Library: Resilience Pipelines, Built-in Telemetry, and More
Polly v8 is officially released. This version brings enhancements such as resilience pipelines, built-in telemetry support, and some changes within the configuration for individual resilience strategies.
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Diagrid Launches Catalyst, a Serverless, Fully-Managed Dapr Offering
Today Diagrid announced the launch of a managed Dapr offering, the industry's first set of APIs focused on eliminating fragmentation when building distributed applications.
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Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 3: Structured Diagnostics, SQL Server Data Tools Upgrade and More
Microsoft released Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 3. This version is focused mainly on addressing community feedback and resolved almost 100 tickets. Additionally, there are some new features: an “Update on Close” option, Unreal Engine macro specifier suggestions, structured diagnostics, and an upgrade in SQL Server Data Tools.
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Uno Platform 5.0 Release: C# Markup and Productivity Improvements
This week, Uno Platform released version 5.0 of their framework for building native mobile, desktop, and WebAssembly apps. With this version, developers can now develop the .NET application using only one language with C# Markup and entirely using C# programming language as an approach. The release also brings Figma to the C# Markup tool, Hot Reload and MVUX improvements.
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.NET MAUI in .NET 8 RC2: Enhanced Performance, Fixed UI & Control Issues
.NET MAUI has been integrated into the .NET 8 release candidate 2, bringing developers closer to the general availability of .NET 8. This release, supported by a go-live license, focuses on resolving regression issues. As reported, efforts have also been made to recover performance that was impacted during enhancements to features such as hot reload, visual state manager, bindings, and app themes.
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Microsoft Announces Radius: a New Open Application Platform for the Cloud
Microsoft has recently announced Radius, a cloud-native application platform designed to facilitate collaboration between developers and platform engineers who assist them in delivering and managing cloud-native applications. This platform ensures that these applications adhere to corporate standards for cost-efficiency, operational efficiency, and security as the default approach.
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ASP.NET Core .NET 8 RC 2: Blazor, Identity, SignalR and More
The latest release of .NET 8 Release Candidate 2 brings a lot of additions and changes to ASP.NET Core. This release is planned to be the last one before the final version of .NET 8 is released. The most notable enhancements for this release of ASP.NET Core are related to the Blazor alongside the updates regarding the Identity, API Authoring, SignalR, and new SPA templates for CLI.
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OpenSilver 2.0 Adds VB.NET, RIA Services and Live XAML Preview
OpenSilver 2.0, a new version of the replacement for the old Silverlight web application framework, brings support for Visual Basic.NET and RIA Services. It also updates the tooling, featuring a live XAML preview designer in Visual Studio.
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JetBrains Rider 2023.3 EAP 2 is out: Debugger Data Flow Analysis, All-in-One Diff Viewer and More
JetBrains released Rider 2023.3 EAP 2. This Early Access Program for Rider contains such features as Debugger Data Flow Analysis, Quick Search feature and All-In-One Diff Viewer. The JetBrains Rider team also presented the Entity Framework Core user interface plugin and added some new inspections within Dynamic Program Analysis.
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AWS Announces the Preview of Amazon CodeWhisperer Customization Capability
Amazon Web Services has announced the preview of Amazon CodeWhisperer Customization Capability. This new functionality empowers users to fine-tune CodeWhisperer, enabling it to provide more precise suggestions by incorporating an organization's proprietary APIs, internal libraries, classes, methods, and industry best practices.
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Microsoft Playwright Testing: Scalable End-to-End Testing for Modern Web Apps
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Microsoft Playwright Testing, a new service for running Playwright tests at scale through Azure.
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GitHub Copilot Chat in Open Beta: Now Available for All Individuals in Visual Studio and VS Code
GitHub Copilot Chat is a chat interface that allows developers to ask and receive answers to coding-related questions directly within a supported IDE. It is currently in open beta and available for all GitHub Copilot individual users across Visual Studio and VS Code.
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Visual Studio Code: C# Dev Kit Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently made the C# Dev Kit generally available for everyone. Microsoft introduced the C# Dev Kit extension back in June this year, and it should make coding in C# easier on multiple platforms. As reported it brings an improved editor-first C# development experience to Linux, macOS, and Windows. The kit and the C# extension use open-source technology.
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ReSharper 2023.2 IDE Includes Predictive Debugger
At the beginning of August, JetBrains introduced a predictive debugger in the 2023.2 version of ReSharper, its developer productivity extension for Microsoft Visual Studio. The predictive debugger anticipates the future of code execution without actually executing the code and provides visual cues to aid in understanding code behavior.