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@motiondotdev Great work as always! The demos are initially janky (many dropped frames), even though I'm on a beefy desktop (Edge). After clicking multiple times they seem to be smooth but it's a bad first experience. Do you know why?

Read the full announcement: motion.dev/magazine/a-vie…

Introducing the View Transition API for the rest of us: animateView is now out of early access. Now with shared elements, intelligent aspect ratio handling, auto-grouping, stagger, enter/exit animations and interruption queueing, it's the best way to jump into view animations.

@msdev nothing but AI... Cloud topic? agents/AI Windows topic? agents/AI Any C# session? just two, about AI...

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@_chenglou I was reacting to your tweet that in the future we might just let LLM replace decisions that are like 12 if-else. I agree there are cases were non-optimal solutions are acceptable, or you can cope with errors. But "reliable" is also a highly desirable quality in many situations.

Right, a few things: - the traces can be verified offline by a traditional solver, and used as accurate synthetic data. This data’s potentially very interesting because it’s different than what a solver or a human would do - it’s not _actually_ about sudoku lol. Most domains don’t need strict correctness requirement, just a good enough solution (and technically in CS theory, an optimization problem is at least as hard as a SAT problem) - if you truly care about using this training recipe for sudoku then you can do what they do for sorting, which is quicksort + detect pathological behavior and switch to heap sort for guaranteed runtime characteristics. In our context it’d be do a fast pass with a neural solver then fall back to a traditional one

I’m very happy to present my toy research project: Sotaku! It's a neural net that automatically discovered the rules of sudoku and learned to solve them, achieving a new state-of-the-art score of 98.9% on one of the hardest sudoku datasets, while being agnostic to the game, and beating all other sudoku-optimized neural net architectures* Read more for fun motivations, plus some extremely unconventional discoveries, e.g. reverse curriculum consistently beating curriculum (!), emergent reasoning-like capabilities, and the future of traditional programming

@_chenglou Nice work! The issue with this future vision is the low reliability: your solver fails 1 out of 100 times. It's impressive but it's also a very high failure rate. That sounds like a reason to use SAT solvers instead. Do you envision a future where AI is more reliable?

I believe in a future where we (or LLMs) gradually replace much of our traditional app code with tiny neural nets that search through our ideas space, guided by our examples, and trained simply as a part of our compilation pipeline I hope for a crossover point where if-else heuristics with more than a dozen cases are recast as a neural search problem. We’ll still let LLM write the code! But instead of massive if-elses, it’d just be a tiny training script for a just-in-time neural net

@madskristensen So besides AI where are the new features?

The first monthly feature update to Visual Studio 2026 is now available. We also released an update to the Insiders channel with new cool features. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualst…

@madskristensen nice idea

Syntactic line compression gives you more vertical space in the editor. Lines without letters or numbers compress by 25%, letting you see more code at once without hurting readability. Coming soon to Visual Studio...

@madskristensen VS 2026, Test explorer, Dark mode.

@madskristensen looks like all the goodies are about AI, so sad.

Time to install the August update to Visual Studio. Here are some of the goodies

@Corca_math looks great, any plan to open-source the equation editor component so that it can be integrated in other products, such as note-taking, wiki or rich text editors?

When we started Corca, we wanted to build a math editor where you could type faster than handwriting on paper. We failed! You can only type at the same speed as writing on paper

@OracleDOTNET Just ship it through Nuget only (which is where most people would get it anyway), problem solved?

@jods16 ODP.​NET is shipped with Oracle DB, which is closed source and commercially licensed. Allowing third-party contributions whose provenance cannot be vetted is problematic for closed source and commercial licenses.

@OracleDOTNET Docs (Data Provider for .NET Core Configuration) say "it uses .NET Configuration API in lieu of a config. file" but does it? I can't find any api taking IConfiguration. Closest is package Ora.MDA.ConfigFile but it parses a specific JSON file.

@OracleDOTNET BTW, why don't you open-source the ODP.NET Core provider? The community could help with PRs.

@jods16 The .NET Configuration API is not IConfiguration. It's an ODP specific class OracleConfiguration.

@OracleDOTNET This would actually be trivial if the class wasn't static as .NET configuration has `Bind()` extension methods but they only work with instances.

@OracleDOTNET I noticed. I would say the sentence "it uses .NET Configuration API" is rather misleading then? docs.oracle.com/en/database/or… To be a good .NET library, it would be nice to have some `IConfiguration` support out of the box, e.g. `OracleConfiguration.Configure(IConfiguration)`.

@SamsungHelpUK Odyssey G7 screen here, really nice HW but CoreSync feature is not working :( When set to rainbow lights work ok (nice bright colors) but CoreSync is dim and mostly white. Doesn't match the screen at all. Found lots of people posting this online but no solution?

@mattgperry @hp0844182 They don't show, and they're broken! If you slow down web animations in the dev tools, the dialog box never appears in this example. It's a very slick example nonetheless. Besides the slight button color flicker, the demo is really nice and smooth :)

@jods16 @hp0844182 Only certain animations can be WAAPI so layout animations don’t show

Now available for vanilla JS using View Transition API via Motion's animateView(), and for Vue using Motion's layout animations (thanks to @hp0844182) The View Transition version feels less responsive but avoids the little brightness dip as the two elements crossfade.

@mattgperry @hp0844182 But I'll make a wild guess anyway: I'd guess it's because `#modal-open` dialog has animated opacity and is parent of the new button. Opacity on both the button and its parent dialog probably doesn't compose exactly right.

@jods16 @hp0844182 I think it works with View Transitions because the two crossfading elements are always together within an isolated layer

@davidfowl Speaking of "modernizing", any clue why MS picked XmlElement to work with .slnx rather than XElement? Honestly just being curious here.

Modernized to xml 🤓 #dotnet