Étienne Baudoux
velersoftware.bsky.social
Étienne Baudoux
@velersoftware.bsky.social
Software Engineer on @VisualStudio Editor team at @Microsoft. UX enthusiast. Co-author of http://devtoys.app. Opinions are my own. 🇫🇷 ➡️ 🇨🇦 ➡️ 🇺🇸
Today is the day. Launching WindowSill 🚀

A universal command bar for Windows:

✅ AI text assistant (select text anywhere to rewrite/translate/fix)
✅ Clipboard history, URL tools, Teams controls & more

Try it: getwindowsill.app

#AI #Windows #IndieDev #FluentUI #Dotnet
September 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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MCP Dev Days are coming July 29-30

Get ready for two days of deep technical insight and hands-on learning at MCP Dev Days, a virtual event dedicated to MCP — the emerging standard that bridges AI models and the tools they rely on. Details here: https://msft.it/63323S20g9
July 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I haven't work on #DevToys in months! These kind of comments encourage me to get into again. However, there's another project I have to finish first. Stay tuned.
#uwp #blazor #microsoft #Windows #fluent
July 8, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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💻 Crafting the tools that craft your code, @velersoftware.bsky.social‬ is speaking at VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ!

Etienne is a Software Engineer at @Microsoft.com on the Visual Studio editor and GitHub Copilot team.
June 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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💻 Crafting the tools that craft your code, @velersoftware.bsky.social‬ is speaking at VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ!

Etienne is a Software Engineer at @Microsoft.com on the Visual Studio editor and GitHub Copilot team.
June 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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SHE SAID YES!!!!! 💖🔥✨

to cancelling the meeting
April 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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📣 This just in...

The *open source* and official GitHub MCP Server is here 🤩 github.blog/changelog/20...
github-mcp-server is now available in public preview · GitHub Changelog
github-mcp-server [Public Preview]
github.blog
April 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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#GodotEngine 4.4 is finally here! 🚀

Look forward to plenty of quality of life improvements hidden within this release. Faster load speeds, reduced stutter, streamlined processes, and more!

godotengine.org/releases/4.4/
Godot 4.4, a unified experience – Godot Engine
Look forward to plenty of quality of life improvements hidden within this release. Faster load speeds, reduced stutter, streamlined processes - spotting all the optimizations that have been applied in...
godotengine.org
March 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
#Gamedle 02/05/2025
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Streak #2
Can you guess the video game? 🎮 guessitdaily.com/gamedle
Gamedle
Guess the videogame based on some screenshots. New videogame everyday. Share your score with friends.
guessitdaily.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I made a website where you can guess movies based on a humorously badly explained plot (which is generated by AI 🤪)

#BadlyExplainedMoviePlot 01/31/2025
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Streak #2
Can you guess the movie? 🎬 guessitdaily.com/badlyexplain...

#wordle #puzzle #game
Badly Explained Movie Plot
Guess the movie based on its badly explained plot. New movie everyday. Share your score with friends.
guessitdaily.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Congratulations to president Musk and first lady Trump. #inauguration
January 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This is the best use of my app DevToys by a friend yet!
January 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Today I bought a bottle of rum to make a King Galette... Now I also want to make crêpes with rum, parisian flan with rum, and rum baba (sponge cake with rum and custard cream) 🤪🤤🤤🤤
January 6, 2025 at 6:41 AM
It's January 2nd, give me a break!
January 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I've been using Visual Studio on a 4GB device for the past few days for a small .NET Blazor app. It's totally fine. Obviously I won't try a Linux Subsystem or Android emulator, but for a small pet project, 4GB is all you need!
December 20, 2024 at 5:08 PM
I'm at the Minneapolis airport and wear an old @microsoft.com Intern t-shirt. A teenager politely asked if she I have been an intern and how was my experience, if I liked it, followed up by asking some advice. Always happy to help a student, in particular when asked respectfully. Don't be shy!
December 18, 2024 at 8:22 PM
It's hard to see your parents aging. 65 y.o and they both forgot when Christmas is and they had to search on internet to remember when it is. Is this an early sign of alzheimer?

Hug your parents. Tell them you love them before it's too late.
December 14, 2024 at 7:11 PM
This Lentil app for iPhone is impressive! Love the Ghibli filter! apps.apple.com/app/id647562...
December 12, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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#Windows developers 🎉!! Check out the new AI Dev Gallery and experiment with local AI models for your Windows app! 🚀

Blog post here: 🔗https://aka.ms/ai-dev-gallery-blog

GitHub: 🔗https://aka.ms/ai-dev-gallery
#windev #winui #wpf #csharp #dotnet #fluentdesign

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-vm...
Introducing AI Dev Gallery for Windows
YouTube video by Windows Developer
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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Going to give this a try!!
December 4, 2024 at 3:40 AM
A few years ago, I made a simple extension for Visual Studio 2022. Now, it's a built-in feature in the IDE. Enjoy! 🚀🥳

devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...
Introducing the Copy Git Permalink Feature in Visual Studio 17.12 - Visual Studio Blog
Discover the new code sharing feature in Visual Studio 2022 that allows seamless sharing of code snippets via GitHub or Azure DevOps, enhancing collaboration and productivity.
devblogs.microsoft.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Any recommended Epub reader for Windows? Possibly with synchronisation with iOS and Android?
November 30, 2024 at 6:13 AM
My team did a fantastic job at addressing this issue that was irritating myself too for over a decade. I started using Visual Studio in 2006, when I was a kid. I'm so thankful to now being able to help making #VisualStudio a better tool everyday as a living.
The latest update to Visual Studio ships with a fix for the decade old behavior of copying the entire row and column headers from the Error List.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPkY...
The error list in Visual Studio now makes sense
YouTube video by Mads Kristensen
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:03 PM
This is what we're going to look like after #Thanksgiving
November 27, 2024 at 3:56 AM
Just learned we can't upload GIF to @bsky.app 🤔🫠
November 25, 2024 at 5:56 AM