News Open Source Visual Studio Code Extension Helps Create Alexa Skills The Amazon Alexa dev team has published an open source extension to help developers using the Visual Studio Code editor to create and deploy Alexa skills. In this context, "skills" refers to capabilities or functions that the Amazon voice-activated virtual assistant can perform in response to spoken commands. The new Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) Toolkit for Visual Studio Code (beta) leverages VS Code's integrated terminal -- a top user-requested feature introduced in 2016 -- to provide a one-stop shop for Alexa skills development. "You can use the ASK extension to call the Alexa Skills Kit Command Line Interface (CLI) from within Visual Studio Code, and can see the results in an integrated terminal," the team said in a recent blog post. "This allows you to perform nearly all skill development actions within Visual Studio Code." Those actions include: Discover ASK commands by typing “ASK” from the VS … [Read more...] about Open Source Visual Studio Code Extension Helps Create Alexa Skills — ADTmag
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Visual Studio IntelliCode lets you tap into AI to improve your code quality
Microsoft today announced new capabilities for Visual Studio at its Build 2018 developer conference. Available in preview, the new tools, IntelliCode and Live Share, will let developers tap into AI and seek assistance from others from within Visual Studio. Perhaps the most interesting addition is Visual Studio IntelliCode. As is a theme with Build 2018, IntelliCode leverages AI to give developers assistance with improving their code. The tool can provide suggestions on how to improve both code quality and productivity, Microsoft says. Meanwhile, Visual Studio Live Share will let you collaborate with other members of your team in real-time. Available in Visual Studio and VS Code, developers will be able to use Live Share to securely share their session with others who can then simultaneously edit and debug from their end. Live Share was originally announced at Connect(); 2017 and has been available as part of a private preview. In other Visual Studio news, Microsoft also announced it … [Read more...] about Visual Studio IntelliCode lets you tap into AI to improve your code quality
Make Visual Studio Code Match Your Gtk Theme
Looking for a Visual Studio Code themes to match your GTK theme? Look no further! Developer Nathan ‘SolarLiner’ Graule has created a Visual Studio Code extension that allows the editor to “seamlessly integrate with popular GTK themes”. Rather aptly he’s named the bolt-on “Linux Themes”. Why use a Visual Studio Code Theme? Visual Studio Code is a popular Electron-based text editor — but it does look a little out of place on the Linux desktop. This is because, like other Electorn apps, it doesn’t use regular or standard UI toolkits, instead relying on web technologies. So, to get the app looking a little more at home on your desktop, you can install the “Linux themes” extension. This add-on will ‘integrate the colors’ of several popular GTK themes, namely: Arc Darker Adapta United GNOME Ambiance If you’re using one of those themes (and there’s a good chance you are) then the extension is a … [Read more...] about Make Visual Studio Code Match Your Gtk Theme
What’s new in Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Microsoft’s open source development tool is an important piece of the developer’s toolkit. Built using GitHub’s cross-platform Electron framework, Visual Studio Code is a full-featured development editor that supports a wide selection of languages and platforms, from the familiar C and C# to modern environments and languages like Go and Node.js, with parity between Windows, MacOS, and Linux releases.Microsoft regularly updates Visual Studio Code. Keep track of the updates’ key features in this changelog.Where to download Visual Studio CodeTo download the editor for Windows, MacOS, and Linux, go to Microsoft’s Visual Code Studio website. It’s also available in Anaconda Python as an option in Distribution 51.What’s new in Visual Studio Code 1.21The February 2018 release of Visual Studio Code, Version 1.21, offers these new features: A notifications UI, to manage notifications. Integrated terminal splitting, in which the terminal … [Read more...] about What’s new in Microsoft Visual Studio Code
What’s new in Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2017
Microsoft has released the first beta of Visual Studio 2017 15.8, which offers a unified Docker container experience. Also released to production was Visual Studio 15.7, which had been in beta.Where to download Visual StudioYou can download Visual Studio 15.7 from the Visual Studio website. And you can download the Version 15.8 beta from the Visual Sudio website.Beta version: Features planned for Visual Studio 15.8In Version 15.8, a single project Docker container experience is offered for ASP.Net Core web projects. This builds on the existing Docker container tools to simplify the building and debugging of Docker containers from the IDE. Developers can add Docker support when starting a project or add it to an existing project.The Visual Studio 2017 15.8 beta also includes improvements for C++ and management of web apps, including: … [Read more...] about What’s new in Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2017