In a social media feedback thread started by Microsoft Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen, multiple developers unloaded on the IDE's facility with AI provided by GitHub Copilot and other tools.

GitHub Copilot testing for .NET in Visual Studio 2026 v18.3 can generate tests for the xUnit, NUnit, and MSTest test frameworks. Microsoft has made GitHub Copilot testing for .NET, a new capability in ...

When Visual Studio Code (VS Code) was released in 2015, it revolutionized code editing. But it can do so much more for the average person who doesn't write code (yet). Let's explore how it can be ...

Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP servers, and hooks.

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Pixel Agents adds a pixel office view in VS Code; six character styles show coding, searching, or idle states, useful for ...

Three of the four vulnerabilities remained unpatched months after OX Security reported them to the maintainers.

Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, ...

OpenAI launches GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark, a Cerebras-powered, ultra-low-latency coding model that claims 15x faster generation speeds, signaling a major inference shift beyond Nvidia as the company faces ...