Microsoft says AI is spreading across the development workflow, but developers remain focused on IDE fundamentals and .NET modernization.

VS Code 1.135 introduces an experimental Rubber Duck feature that asks a complementary AI model to critique an agent's work. GitHub's implementation turns traditional rubber duck debugging into a ...

Visual Studio 2026 18.9 adds Low, Medium and High model thinking effort controls. Git worktrees let developers keep multiple branches active in separate working directories. Visual Studio now provides ...

Power BI's Copilot can help generate and explain DAX, create visuals, accelerate analysis and assist with data transformation, but Thomas LeBlanc says developers still need to validate every result.

Microsoft's seventh .NET 11 preview expands runtime-async, developer tooling, libraries, C#, Blazor, MAUI, EF Core and Windows Forms.

SQL Server 2025 gives developers new ways to work with text, JSON, real-time data changes and AI-ready vector data. Microsoft MVP Leonard Lobel explains why he considers it the most significant SQL ...

Learn why many seemingly unpredictable AI failures can be traced to preventable engineering, security and governance mistakes. See how least-privilege access, human oversight, adversarial testing and ...

The 2026 Visual Studio Magazine Reader's Choice Awards mark the 32nd year of the annual reader-voted program. Readers voted across 40-plus categories covering tools, components and services used in ...

After rolling out Agent Host functionality across recent VS Code releases, Microsoft is detailing the architecture behind persistent agent sessions and opening its Agent Host Protocol to third-party ...

Microsoft's MSSQL extension v1.45 previews a configurable T-SQL formatter while two existing features reach GA.