Distributed, high-scale applications often come with a hidden tax: the complexity of managing state, concurrency, and scalability across many moving parts. Traditional n-tier architectures can ...

Microsoft is keeping Visual Studio's new built-in Agent Skills switched off by default while a public dashboard measures whether their performance gains justify the additional tokens they may consume.

Visual Studio Code 1.129 adds a dedicated process for running AI agent sessions and an experimental docked editor for reviewing agent-generated changes.

Microsoft is extending Dataverse into coding-agent marketplaces while expanding its MCP tools, certification program and governance controls.

Beyond Copilot usage visibility, the June update delivers several other enhancements centered on AI-assisted development, security and quality-of-life improvements. Here's a quick rundown of the ...

In this Q&A, developer and VSLive! speaker Esteban Garcia explains how GitHub Copilot can accelerate the full software development lifecycle -- from architecture and code to tests, CI/CD, and Azure ...

New research on the effect of AI-powered GitHub Copilot on software development cites some adverse results. The "Coding on Copilot" whitepaper from GitClear sought to investigate the quality and ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research provides a full-code, step-by-step machine learning tutorial on how to use the LightGBM system to perform multi-class classification using Python and the ...

The July 8, 2026, Visual Studio Code update expands agent workflows, chat attachments, browser-tab controls, OS-level shortcuts and enterprise telemetry management.

Microsoft says TypeScript 7, announced July 8, brings native Go performance to VS Code, Visual Studio and other editors.

Why MCP is emerging as a practical tool layer for AI agents How C# developers can build and register MCP servers What it takes to manage MCP servers reliably at scale As the AI industry pushes beyond ...

In the new Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2, four new features have been added to Git, the free and open source distributed version control system that powers Microsoft's GitHub and other code repository ...