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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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Unity Extension for Visual Studio Code: Preview Release
Microsoft released the initial preview of its Unity extension for Visual Studio Code. Extension builds upon the existing C# Dev Kit and C# extensions, providing developers with a toolkit for Unity development across Windows, macOS, and Linux. The integration aims to simplify the coding and debugging experience for Unity developers, regardless of the platform while using Visual Studio Code.
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.NET MAUI 8 Preview 6: Visual Studio Code Extension, Bug Fixes & Native AOT for iOS
Microsoft has recently released the sixth preview of the .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) framework in .NET 8 roadmap. As reported, this latest release resolves a number of high-impact issues, including Visual Studio for Mac 17.6.1 support, Native AOT for iOS and the new Visual Studio Code extension for .NET MAUI development.
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C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code
Microsoft has introduced the C# Dev Kit, a new extension to Visual Studio Code, offering an enhanced C# development environment for Linux, macOS and Windows. This kit, combined with the C# extension, uses an open-source Language Server Protocol (LSP) host to provide an efficient and configurable environment.
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GitHub Enhanced Copilot with New AI Model and Security-Oriented Capabilities
GitHub Copilot adopted a new AI model which is both faster and more accurate than the previous one, says GitHub. Additionally, GitHub has started using AI to detect vulnerabilities in Copilot suggestion by blocking insecure coding patterns in real-time.
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AI-Based Code-Completion Tool Tabnine Now Offers Automatic Unit Test Generation
One of the pioneers in the field, Tabnine is a code completion assistant that uses generative AI to predict and suggest the next lines of code based on its surrounding context. Tabnine is now opening beta access to new capabilities aimed at generating unit tests.
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Google Introduces Cloud Workstations in Public Preview
Google introduced the public preview of Cloud Workstations during its Cloud Next event, which provides fully-managed and integrated development environments on the Google Cloud Platform.
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Debugging Large and Complex Dockerfiles Gets Easier with Buildg
Kohei Tokunaga has released buildg - an interactive tool for debugging Dockerfiles. The motivation for the project is to provide an easy-to-use interactive tool to inspect this build process. The tool also containers support for debugging Dockerfiles directly from inside several popular IDEs (Integrated Developer Environments), such as VS Code, Emacs and Neovim.
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Google Brings Compute Engine Integration to Cloud Code
Recently Google added a new integration in Cloud Code with its Compute Engine service (GCE) to make it easier for developers to manage their frequently used virtual machines in the IDE, view details about them, connect to them over SSH, upload application files, and view their logs.
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Adopting Remote Development Environments at Slack
The Slack internal tools team recently talked about utilizing remote development environments in their application development workflow. By January 2022, over 90% of engineers had started using the remote development workflow at Slack, which lead to an increase in developer productivity.
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Visual Studio Code Server Now Available in Private Preview
Microsoft has announced a private preview of the backend service that powers its Visual Studio Code editor, along with a specific CLI to manage it. Visual Studio Code Server can be installed everywhere and easily used through VS Code for the Web running in a browser.
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Microsoft Releases a New Power Platform Product with Power Pages in Preview
The latest addition to the Power Platform is Microsoft Power Pages. At the annual Build conference, the company announced the preview of Microsoft Power Pages as a stand-alone Software as a Service (SaaS) platform product for anyone, regardless of technical background, to create data-powered, modern, and secure websites.
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GitLens 12 Brings Support for Visual Studio Code for the Web
GitKraken launched GitLens 12, an open-source Visual Studio Code extension that enables using Git from Visual Studio Code for the Web and github.dev. Besides new free features, improvements, and fixes, GitLens 12 also introduces premium features, including Worktrees and Visual File History.
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Interview with Magnus Madsen about the Flix Programming Language
Flix, an open-source programming language inspired by many programming languages, enables developers to write code in a functional, imperative or logic style. Flix looks like Scala, uses a type system based on Hindley-Milner and a concurrency model inspired by Go. The JVM language supports unique features such as the polymorphic effect system and Datalog constraints.
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Red Hat Releases Language Support for Java Plugin 1.0 for VSCode
Red Hat has released version 1.0 of Language support for Java on VSCode that supports Java 17, displaying type hierarchies and improved performance. The source lookup feature has been improved and now supports unmanaged projects and is able to display sources of any library available on Maven central. This release also contains new code actions and support for Gradle files written in Kotlin.