Google's new AI-powered Antigravity IDE has triggered an intense discussion among developers after many users quickly concluded that the tool is based on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. A Hacker News ...

VS Code 1.120 brings the Agents window to Stable preview, giving AI agent sessions and customizations a dedicated workspace.

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders includes a Skills panel for discovering, managing and creating Agent Skills. Agent Mode can help fill in a generated SKILL.md template, propose implementation steps and ...

Microsoft announced a new VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026, an in-person build event at its Redmond campus focused on Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, GitHub Copilot and agent-based development.

After a years-long problematic relationship, AI-powered coding assistant tools from Microsoft and GitHub are working together better. Specifically, Microsoft this month announced "Visual Studio's ...

OpenSilver 2.2 debuted today with a focus on helping developers revive Visual Studio LightSwitch legacy applications. OpenSilver was created as an open source alternative to Microsoft Silverlight, a ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on an implementation of the technique that emphasizes simplicity and ease-of-modification over robustness and ...

GitHub topped research firm's Gartner's inaugural Magic Quadrant report on vendors of AI code assistants, leading in both completeness of vision and ability to execute. That's perhaps unsurprising as ...

Microsoft Product Manager Mike Kistler previews his Visual Studio Live! session on how MCP servers give .NET developers a universal standard for connecting AI models to external data and tools -- and ...

Microsoft's Mads Kristensen took to social media to ask Visual Studio developers to share their favorite prompts to get GitHub Copilot AI to improve their code. Kristensen, a principal product manager ...

First, it was problems with moving from the proprietary .NET Framework to the open source, cross-platform .NET Core (now just .NET). Then, it was problems with Visual Studio 2022 moving to the 64-bit ...