Best of DevBlogs — May 2025

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   Announcing TypeScript Native Previews

   TypeScript Native Previews are now available, offering a significant speed advantage due to the native port of the TypeScript compiler using Go, shared memory parallelism, and concurrency. This preview can be installed via npm and extends the functionality in Visual Studio Code through a new extension. Although it's still in its early stages with some missing features, developers are encouraged to explore these previews and provide feedback for continued improvements.

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   Edit is now open source

   Edit is a new, lightweight open-source command-line text editor for Windows, designed to be a default editor for 64-bit versions of the OS. It offers features like multiple file support, find and replace functionality, and word wrap, and will be available for preview in the Windows Insider Program before being bundled with Windows 11.

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   Modernizing Project Files with AI: A Success Story from the .NET Team

   Microsoft revamped its .NET Framework build system by using AI to automate project file conversions. Through experimentation with Copilot and a Python script using Azure OpenAI models, the team achieved a faster transformation process. Although accuracy required manual intervention, the script method accelerated project burndown and met goals ahead of schedule. The initiative demonstrated AI's potential in simplifying complex workflows and enhancing productivity without significant cost.

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   .NET 10 Preview 4 is now available!

   .NET 10 Preview 4 has been released, featuring enhancements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, and libraries. Major updates include out-of-proc trace support, rate limiting trace sampling, and new async Zip APIs in libraries, along with JSON Patch and minimal API validation for ASP.NET Core. F# language and .NET MAUI see improvements, while Entity Framework Core introduces full-text search support for Azure Cosmos DB. Windows Forms and WPF receive quality improvements and shared functionalities.

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