Introducing GitHub Copilot for Azure: Your Cloud Coding Companion in VS Code!
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Announcing the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
Announcing the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code, available now in the Visual Studio Marketplace. This powerful extension lets developers explore, fine-tune, and integrate top models from Azure AI Studio and HuggingFace into their apps. The AI Toolkit evolved from the Windows AI Studio extension released in November 2023, addressing user feedback for a cross-platform experience. Key features include a curated model catalog optimized for Windows and Linux (MacOS models coming soon), a model playground for local experimentation, advanced fine-tuning techniques, detailed evaluations, and easy deployment to Azure. Enjoy high-performance inferencing with OnnxRuntime and DirectML, leveraging GPUs, NPUs, and CPUs on Windows. Start building and fine-tuning projects within VS Code today!Playwright in Action: From Setup to Best Practices | Azure Developers JavaScript Day 2024
Another excellent session was held during the Azure Developers JavaScript Day 2024 event! This time, the focus was on Playwright. But what is Playwright? And what are the best practices for using it? Let's find out with the talk "Playwright in Action: From Setup to Best Practices"! Presented by Max Schmitt, Software Engineer on the Playwright team at Microsoft, and Stefan Judis, Playwright Ambassador! During this session, Max and Stefan provided a comprehensive overview of Playwright, a browser automation library, and demonstrated how to leverage it for creating robust, end-to-end tests for modern web applications.
