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 ...

Simona Liao and Leah Tran, product managers at Microsoft, discuss how GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio has evolved from a code completion tool into an agent-driven development workflow -- and share ...

Microsoft has updated Visual Studio Code. It comes with several updates of interest to developers including GitHub Copilot Chat improvements and read-only mode for specific files and folders. GitHub ...

I understand that Microsoft is planning to remove most of its Claude Code licenses and push many of its developers to use ...

A recent pull request effectively turned Copilot into a "co-author" for every programming project created in Visual Studio ...

The report notes that Claude Code quickly became popular within Microsoft over the past six months. However, that popularity ...

Visual Studio Code 1.119 adds browser-aware AI agents, token optimization, OpenTelemetry tracing, and Markdown usability ...

It’s time to switch to a new development tool for SQL Server and Azure SQL. Here’s how to get started with the MSSQL ...

Sign-ups on hold: GitHub has paused new subscriptions for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and student plans, introducing weekly usage caps for all tiers. AI tools advance: From Claude Code to cloud agents in VS ...

Microsoft has rolled back a Visual Studio Code change that automatically credited GitHub Copilot as a co-author on commits, even when the AI tool was not used. The reversal, implemented in version ...

Today is Microsoft's May 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates for 120 flaws and no zero-days disclosed this month.

Thanks to cloud agents, remote coding sessions can now be started from within the IDE, and the C++ code editing tools are generally available.