At VSLive! Las Vegas, Mads Kristensen revealed Visual Studio 2027 as part of a broader shift toward AI-assisted development and a more continuous release cadence for Microsoft's flagship IDE.

Now shipping in the VS Code Insiders build, Microsoft's new Visual Studio Code Agents preview offers an early look at a separate companion app for agent sessions, approvals, workspace discovery, and ...

Across the April 8 and April 15, 2026 releases, Visual Studio Code expanded its agent-focused tooling with a new companion app, better terminal interaction, session debugging and more built-in Copilot ...

The Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available, allowing agents to be developed and managed directly from the editor. The extension enables software-style workflows for ...

GitHub has introduced an Agents tab that provides a repository-level view of Copilot coding agent tasks and sessions. The Agents workflow produces normal pull requests, enabling review and validation ...

A proof of concept used OpenClaw's localhost dashboard inside VS Code's integrated browser to compare it directly with Copilot on the same SKILL.md file, finding that OpenClaw delivered broader, more ...

Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel ...

Christian Wenz explains why the Backends for Frontends (BFF) pattern is emerging as a more secure authentication model for single-page applications.

Amber Vanderburg discusses how engineering leaders can spot and fix the “silent bugs” in team dynamics before they turn into bigger delivery problems.

Compared to other regression techniques, a well-tuned neural network regression system can produce the most accurate prediction model, says Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research in presenting this ...

Microsoft recently advanced .NET MAUI to General Availability status, but many developers have complained about half-baked functionality that was shipped too soon. .NET Multi-platform App UI went GA ...

Test projects give you a way to exercise your code to see if it works but they're also part of your project's "permanent record." If all you want to do is try something out with some throwaway code, C ...