GitHub's new Efficiency, Balance and Intelligence settings steer Copilot's automatic model selection toward cost or quality, while a VSM hands-on test produced three different models and nearly a ...

Microsoft's latest weekly VS Code release makes its AI-assisted publishing process explicit while adding Dev Container agent sessions, expanded Codex support and automated session cleanup.

Microsoft's first .NET 11 release candidate is supported for production use as the platform moves toward its Nov. 10 launch.

Snowflake's Matt Nunn explains why effective AI starts with effective data preparation, from ingestion and transformation through semantic context, storage, enrichment and secure consumption.

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 ...

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 ...

The 2026 Visual Studio Magazine Reader's Choice Awards mark the 32nd year of the annual reader-voted program. Readers voted across 40-plus categories covering tools, components and services used in ...

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 ...

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 ...