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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released a stable, customizable Agent Framework Harness for building autonomous agents with .NET and Python. The harness combines an automatic tool-calling loop with planning, persistent ...

GitHub's clearest financial concessions include larger individual-plan allowances, temporary enterprise credits and a 10 percent discount for automatic model selection. New controls can limit spending ...

The Dataverse plugin is available for GitHub Copilot, Claude and Cursor. The plugin routes natural-language requests across MCP, SDK and command-line tools. Microsoft expanded Dataverse MCP tools, ...

VS Code 1.120 brings the Agents window to Stable preview. The new window opens from a title-bar button. Agent customizations include Agents, Skills, Instructions, Hooks, MCP Servers and Plugins. It ...