VS Code 1.135 brings GitHub Copilot's cross-model critic into Agent Host sessions, while also adding external session continuation, Agents window refinements and more detailed token-usage reporting.

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

GitHub Staff DevOps Architects Mickey Gousset and Ken Muse examine spectacular AI failures to uncover the recurring engineering and governance mistakes behind them -- and explain the guardrails ...

If you just want to get going with a code-first database, you don't even need to define a connection string -- just write your objects. After you install Entity Framework in your application, if you ...

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 ...

Power BI's Copilot can help generate and explain DAX, create visuals, accelerate analysis and assist with data transformation, but Thomas LeBlanc says developers still need to validate every result.

Multi-agent orchestration makes workflow more inspectable, with clear handoffs and a QA backstop. Breaking the work into discrete steps makes the output easier to audit and fix. A timestamped handoff ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.