Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...

Microsoft is bringing GitHub Copilot’s most advanced Visual Studio integration to C++, allowing the AI assistant to tap into the compiler's understanding of whole C++ codebases. That deeper context ...

Microsoft is expanding GitHub Copilot's deepest Visual Studio integration to C++, giving the AI assistant compiler-backed insight into entire C++ codebases so it can refactor and modify projects ...

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A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...

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Microsoft has finally launched Visual Studio 2026. The latest version makes the IDE feel lighter, faster, and more in line with how developers actually work. As with almost every Microsoft product, ...

Microsoft is focusing on long-term stability and more flexible developer tooling with its new “AI-native” Visual Studio 2026 IDE and .NET 10. These new releases are aimed at two main business goals: ...

Microsoft published guidance explaining how C++ developers can upgrade their existing projects to Visual Studio 2026. The company said the process is straightforward and designed to minimize ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...

Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. is a senior editor and ...