How Visual Studio is AWESOME for WinForms, WPF, .NET MAUI and All Your Favorite Frameworks | with Merrie McGaw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noIjGyfIoi0

#windowsdev #visualstudio #dotnet #productivity #githubcopilot #windev

There are so many awesome new AI development features in the latest release of VS Code (v1.103) that you need to turn on ASAP! I break down my favorite that I use every day:

https://youtu.be/1lu9Q1B_dEw

#vscode #githubcopilot

GPT-5 Now Available in Visual Studio | by Rhea Patel.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/gpt-5-now-available-in-visual-studio/

#visualstudio #githubcopilot #gpt5 #ai #productivity #copilot #dotnet

GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/github-will-be-folded-into-microsoft-proper-as-ceo-steps-down/?utm_source=mastodon

Today's news about GitHub should not come as a big surprise. The writing was on the wall in 2018 when Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5 Billion. Microsoft is asserting full control over a company they've consumed, and they're proceeding to run it into the ground. And, as with practically every Tech company these days, the motivation is to build hype about integration with AI/LLM technology.

What I find surprising is the timing of GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's departure — it was not part of an immediate post-takeover clearout, nor after a transitional period that's traditionally one or two years, nor did he settle-in comfortably until the end of his career.

Concerns that GitHub is progressing along the path to enshittification are not unfounded. Microsoft has a habit of this — look at what they did to Hotmail, Visio, Nokia, Skype, and more (LinkedIn is, IMHO, an exception to this pattern; it came pre-enshittified).

I'm tipping that most companies currently using GitHub will continue to use it. The news isn't serious enough for them to put themselves through the discomfort of migrating to a different repository platform, or establishing and committing to maintain their own in-house system. Small businesses, community projects, students, hobby coders, and some Open Source Software projects might be inspired to migrate? Maybe? Startups might think a bit harder about whether to go with GitHub or one of the alternatives?

I think the real lesson here is that any platform you get into needs to have a smooth path to migrate in your content, and to migrate out as a safe and easy exit strategy. In the meantime, the importance of interoperability is as strong as ever. The same goes for not getting locked into an ecosystem that looks convenient but turns out to be a "Walled Garden". That, and the warning that if a product or service is presented to you as "Free" then it's likely that you and your work are the product.

#GitHub #Microsoft #GitHubCopilot #AI #LLM #Enshittification

«The era of the junior developer is gone. You either are THE mastermind, or you're already replaced by ChatGPT»

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