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.

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

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 ...

OpenAI's new GPT-4o, the company's latest/greatest large language model (LLM), is immediately available for Azure developers, Microsoft announced today. OpenAI, which started the generative AI craze, ...

Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions ...

Microsoft's Scott Hanselman announced that Visual Studio Community 2019 and Visual Studio Code are now available in the Microsoft Store on Windows 11. The news came in an Aug. 24 tweet, wherein ...

Remember when "prompt engineer" job posts were listing salaries north of $300,000? Much has changed since then, and the "engineer" aspect has dimmed, with prompting advice, tools and resources freely ...

A hands-on Blazor test shows how VS Code 1.119 makes agent browser sharing more visible, permissioned and chat-driven.