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 announced a new VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026, an in-person build event at its Redmond campus focused on Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, GitHub Copilot and agent-based development.

The regular monthly update to Java on Visual Studio Code sees added shortcut snippets aligning with other editors, optimized code completion, improvements to the Maven build automation tool and more ...

GitHub topped research firm's Gartner's inaugural Magic Quadrant report on vendors of AI code assistants, leading in both completeness of vision and ability to execute. That's perhaps unsurprising as ...

The Windows Community Toolkit advanced to version 8.1, adding new features, improving existing controls and making dependency changes. The toolkit is a community-driven project hosted by the .NET ...

Google's new AI-powered Antigravity IDE has triggered an intense discussion among developers after many users quickly concluded that the tool is based on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. A Hacker News ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on an implementation of the technique that emphasizes simplicity and ease-of-modification over robustness and ...

Microsoft Product Manager Mike Kistler previews his Visual Studio Live! session on how MCP servers give .NET developers a universal standard for connecting AI models to external data and tools -- and ...

After a years-long problematic relationship, AI-powered coding assistant tools from Microsoft and GitHub are working together better. Specifically, Microsoft this month announced "Visual Studio's ...

Microsoft's latest Visual Studio preview facilitates "vibe coding," where developers mainly use GitHub Copilot AI to do all the programming in accordance with spoken or typed instructions. The term ...