Visual Studio Magazine

Uno Platform Helps Ship First Stable SkiaSharp 4.0 Release for 2D .NET Graphics

SkiaSharp 4.148.0 marks the first stable release in the SkiaSharp v4 line. The project is now co-maintained by Microsoft's .NET team and Uno Platform, reflecting a broader open-source collaboration.

Alibaba's model never trained as an agent — and improved agent performance across seven benchmarks

Real environments can't inject edge cases on demand. Alibaba's Qwen-AgentWorld simulates them — and outperformed ...

OpenAI's updated GPT-5.5 Instant is better at shopping, complex constraints, and understanding user intent — and it's already in the API

OpenAI is moving away from models that require heavy hand-holding and toward systems that can better infer the user’s goal, ...
InfoWorld

Using Visual Studio Code’s ‘air-gapped’ AI model mode

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and ...
Visual Studio Magazine

.NET 11 Preview 5 Focuses on Performance, Productivity and Safer Code

.NET 11 Preview 5 is about removing friction, improving performance, and tightening day-to-day dev workflows. The preview includes updates across runtime, SDK, libraries and app frameworks. Visual ...