Copilot Named Top AI Code Tool, VS Code for Machine Learning Debuts, .NET Community Toolkit Update, More

September 5, 2024

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GitHub Copilot Tops Research Report on AI Code Assistants

GitHub topped research firm's Gartner's inaugural Magic Quadrant report on AI code assistants, with Copilot leading in both completeness of vision and ability to execute.

■	Newly Open-Sourced '.NET Smart Components' Demoed at AI Event
■	Content Exclusion Is Latest of Many New Visual Studio Copilot Features
■	Copilot Rolled Out to Your Org? Better Check User Activity
■	Semantic Kernel AI SDK Gets Autonomous Agents (Experimental)

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VS Code Tool for Azure Machine Learning Ships After 7-Year Preview

"You can use your favorite VS Code setup, either desktop or web, to build, train, deploy, debug, and manage machine learning models with Azure Machine Learning from within VS Code."

■	VS Code v1.92: Pick Your Browser, Use OpenAI's GPT-4o AI Model
■	Google Extends Free Use of VS Code AI Assistant Until Nov. 8
■	Stack Overflow Dev Survey: VS Code, Visual Studio and .NET Shine
■	Open Source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' Exits Beta to Challenge Visual Studio Code

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ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI Updated as .NET 9 Nears

The web-dev ASP.NET Core framework and Xamarin.Forms' successor .NET MAUI received the lion's share of dev attention in the seventh preview of .NET 9 as Microsoft preps for a November launch at .NET Conf 2024.

■	Microsoft Spotlights .NET 9, Cloud in First Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 Preview
■	Building and Deploying a .NET 9 App Using Azure, Bicep and GitHub Actions
■	Integrating Blazor with Existing .NET Web Apps
■	ABP Ships Community Edition of Open Source .NET Dev Framework

.NET Community Toolkit Gets Native AOT and .NET 8 Support

The .NET Community Toolkit is Microsoft's latest dev tooling to get native ahead-of-time compilation, continuing a years-long push for that capability across the board.

■	With .NET 6 Support Ending, Security Vulnerabilities Loom
■	Cloud-Native .NET Aspire 8.1 Targets Building Containers, Orchestrating Python
■	Microsoft Focuses on .NET Aspire, 'Modern SQL' with AI at Dev Conference
■	OpenSilver 3.0 Framework for .NET Gets UI by AI

AWS CEO and GitHub Agree on One Thing: AI Coding Is the Future

GitHub data released same day cloud giant CEO predicts a possible future where "most developers are not coding."

■	'GitHub Models' AI Playground Debuts with Llama 3.1, GPT-4o and More
■	Copilot in Visual Studio Will Get Access to Org Knowledge Bases
■	Microsoft Going Small in Semantic Kernel AI Dev Tooling
■	Microsoft Previews AI Prompt Playground for VS Code: Prompty

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