The current release provides Agent Mode with a new level of security and allows automatic selection of a language model in Copilot Chat.

Keep asking; it ain't happening. Microsoft has reaffirmed that its full-featured Visual Studio IDE will remain exclusive to ...

Visual Studio is the second most popular IDE after VS Code, so the first major update in five years ... but it seems that the product itself is still hooked to the old Windows-only .NET. Comments on ...

For a long time, Microsoft had the reputation for being unfriendly to developers. After all, Microsoft infamously spent much of the '90s and '00s battling with the open source community — the free and ...

Crashes occur during the initial IDE startup when loading extensions or caches, immediately after installing updates (e.g., .NET upgrades or Visual Studio patches), or during specific actions such as ...

GitHub Copilot app modernization is now generally available in Visual Studio, providing AI-powered upgrades and Azure ...

A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code. Malicious Visual Studio Code extensions were discovered on ...

Once upon a time, you might have developed for the Commodore 64 using the very machine itself. You’d use the chunky old keyboard, a tape drive, or the 1541 disk drive if you wanted to work faster.

Microsoft is making three of its most popular Windows frameworks -- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Forms and the Windows UI XAML Library (WinUI) available under open source licenses.