Microsoft's Mads Kristensen asked developers what they want from Visual Studio's Test Explorer, drawing recurring calls for better reliability, smarter test execution, improved filtering and the ...

Back in 2017, the VS Code dev team wasn't interested in providing an integrated browser, but I was. My, how times have changed. I road-tested latest tech to see if it could replace my aging extension ...

The latest release of the .NET-centric Uno Platform Studio adds isolated UI previews, reusable XAML snippets, more targeted AI prompting and a new default design system, extending the browser-based ...

Agent Merge, multi-root sessions and new agent-session organization extend VS Code's AI tooling beyond code generation and into pull request completion, orchestration and review.

Amber Vanderburg previews her Visual Studio Live! Orlando session on using AI to improve leadership communication, decision-making and team adoption without handing over the human judgment that ...

Microsoft says AI is spreading across the development workflow, but developers remain focused on IDE fundamentals and .NET modernization.

VS Code 1.135 introduces an experimental Rubber Duck feature that asks a complementary AI model to critique an agent's work. GitHub's implementation turns traditional rubber duck debugging into a ...

Learn why many seemingly unpredictable AI failures can be traced to preventable engineering, security and governance mistakes. See how least-privilege access, human oversight, adversarial testing and ...

Microsoft has formally detailed the Agent Host architecture already appearing in recent VS Code releases. Agent Host separates AI sessions from individual editor windows so sessions can persist and ...

Aspire 13.5 adds interactive terminal sessions for resources in the dashboard. The Interaction Service gains file uploads, progress dialogs and command arguments. TypeScript AppHosts reach GA ...

SQL Server 2025 adds long-requested developer capabilities including regular expressions, fuzzy string matching and major enhancements for working with JSON. Change Event Streaming lets applications ...

MSSQL v1.45 adds a built-in T-SQL formatter in public preview. Azure SQL Database Provisioning is now generally available. Shortcuts Configuration also moves to general availability. Microsoft has ...