This hands-on build shows how Agent Mode in Visual Studio 2026 -- Insiders now, stable soon --can create and operationalize a custom Copilot skill that automates feature-parity tracking with practical ...

VS Code 1.120 brings the Agents window to Stable preview, giving AI agent sessions and customizations a dedicated workspace.

Microsoft has updated Visual Studio Code. It comes with several updates of interest to developers including GitHub Copilot Chat improvements and read-only mode for specific files and folders. GitHub ...

Visual Studio Code 1.119 adds browser-aware AI agents, token optimization, OpenTelemetry tracing, and Markdown usability ...

A lower-cost way to upgrade your dev setup.

It’s time to switch to a new development tool for SQL Server and Azure SQL. Here’s how to get started with the MSSQL ...

I understand that Microsoft is planning to remove most of its Claude Code licenses and push many of its developers to use ...

A recent pull request effectively turned Copilot into a "co-author" for every programming project created in Visual Studio ...

Business and enterprise users can now connect their own API keys to use LLMs via OpenRouter, Ollama, Google, OpenAI, and more in VS Code Chat.

Thanks to cloud agents, remote coding sessions can now be started from within the IDE, and the C++ code editing tools are generally available.

TeamPCP’s Mini Shai-Hulud campaign used hijacked GitHub OIDC tokens to spread a credential-stealing worm through TanStack npm ...

Today is Microsoft's May 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates for 120 flaws and no zero-days disclosed this month.