Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP ...

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Visual Studio 2026 is no longer a preview or a promise, it is a shipping product that developers can install today. Microsoft is positioning this release as a generational reset for its flagship IDE, ...

Enterprises seeking to make good on the promise of agentic AI will need a platform for building, wrangling, and monitoring AI agents in purposeful workflows. In this quickly evolving space, myriad ...

VS Code's AI Toolkit and Microsoft Foundry can speed up agent development, but real-world success often depends on picking the right runtime and region, keeping tool-driven context under control, and ...

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Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code development environment will move from monthly updates to a weekly release schedule, beginning with version 1.111, according to the development team.

The GlassWorm supply-chain campaign has returned with a new, coordinated attack that targeted hundreds of packages, ...

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

As a wise young woman once told a budding witch suffering from burnout, "We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it's not easy." But on this fine February evening, inspiration is readily ...

Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution.