Contrarian Report Shades GitHub Copilot Productivity, Bits Polished as .NET 9 Nears, Python in VS Code, More

September 19, 2024

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Another Report Weighs In on GitHub Copilot Dev Productivity: 👎

Several reports have answered "yes" to the question of whether GitHub Copilot improves developer productivity. A new one says "no."

■	GitHub Copilot Tops Research Report on AI Code Assistants
■	Content Exclusion Is Latest of Many New Visual Studio Copilot Features
■	Copilot Rolled Out to Your Org? Better Check User Activity
■	Copilot in Visual Studio Will Get Access to Org Knowledge Bases

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.NET MAUI, ASP.NET Core Polished in First Release Candidate for .NET 9

Microsoft shipped the first release candidate for .NET 9, which is nearing feature completeness and production readiness in advance of its November debut.

■	Newly Open-Sourced '.NET Smart Components' Demoed at AI Event
■	'GitHub Models' AI Playground Debuts with Llama 3.1, GPT-4o and More
■	Semantic Kernel AI SDK Gets Autonomous Agents (Experimental)
■	Integrating Blazor with Existing .NET Web Apps

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Dev Asks, and 7 Years Later Python in VS Code Delivers Django Unit Test Support

"We are excited to announce support for one of our most requested features: you can now discover and run Django unit tests through the Test Explorer!"

■	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
■	ChatGPT's Impact on App-Dev? GitHub Site Gives Instant Insights

Microsoft's Stalled UWP Project Supports .NET 9 as WinUI 3 Migration Urged

The company urges devs to switch to Windows App SDK and WinUI 3 because UWP is no longer under active development.

■	Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 Ships 'Shaped by Your Feedback' (and AI)
■	Microsoft Focuses on .NET Aspire, 'Modern SQL' with AI at Dev Conference
■	.NET Community Toolkit Gets Native AOT and .NET 8 Support
■	Building and Deploying a .NET 9 App Using Azure, Bicep and GitHub Actions

Logistic Regression with Batch SGD Training and Weight Decay Using C#

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end program that explains how to perform binary classification (predicting a variable with two possible discrete values) using logistic regression, where the prediction model is trained using batch stochastic gradient descent with weight decay.

■	AdaBoost Binary Classification Using C#
■	Artificial Immune Systems for Intrusion Detection Using C#
■	Data Anomaly Detection Using LightGBM
■	Data Dimensionality Reduction Using a Neural Autoencoder with C#

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Contrarian Report Shades GitHub Copilot Productivity, Bits Polished as .NET 9 Nears, Python in VS Code, More

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

Better Check Copilot User Activity, VS 2022 Shaped by Feedback/AI, Build and Deploy a .NET 9 App to Azure, More

Next for ASP.NET Core/Blazor, Are Monorepos Good? .NET 9 Templates for Blazor Hybrid & .NET MAUI, More

First OpenAI .NET Library, Copilot Chat AI Extensions, .NET MAUI in VS Code Goes GA, More

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