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Microsoft is pushing to make creating WinUI 3 applications and migrating WPF and UWP applications easier through VS Code, GitHub Copilot, and WinUI Agent, with a promise of completing the initial workflow in about 30 minutes. However, reducing the cost of writing code does not automatically guarantee faster or less resource-intensive applications, a challenge that remains open for the company’s strategy.
Microsoft announced the open-source code-testing-generator agent, capable of understanding a project repository, identifying the testing framework, writing unit tests, and verifying that they build and run. The agent achieved a 92.1% completion rate in an internal test of 152 tasks, compared with 78.9% for standard Copilot using the same model.