New research on the effect of AI-powered GitHub Copilot on software development cites some adverse results. The "Coding on Copilot" whitepaper from GitClear sought to investigate the quality and ...

Mads Kristensen used a VSLive! keynote to publicly discuss Visual Studio 2027 and frame it as part of a broader shift in how the IDE will evolve . The session focused on AI-assisted development, ...

After publicly touting pull request limits as a way to cut maintainer noise, GitHub is taking the same idea further with a new setting that lets repository admins restrict issue creation to ...

Spring AI 2.0 advances the Java framework for generative AI apps with a Spring Boot 4 baseline, cleaner agentic tooling, Model Context Protocol support and vendor-backed integrations including Azure ...

SkiaSharp 4.148.0 marks the first stable release in the SkiaSharp v4 line. The project is now co-maintained by Microsoft's .NET team and Uno Platform, reflecting a broader open-source collaboration.

Eclipse Open VSX has reached 1.0.0, highlighting its role as a vendor-neutral registry for VS Code-compatible extensions.

Microsoft's Dan Wahlin previews his introductory 'Kubernetes for Developers' session at Visual Studio Live! San Diego 2026, explaining how developers can get past the Kubernetes learning curve by ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research provides a full-code, step-by-step machine learning tutorial on how to use the LightGBM system to perform multi-class classification using Python and the ...

Visual Studio Code 1.126 adds session-level Copilot cost information, continuing Microsoft's recent focus on helping developers monitor and manage usage-based GitHub Copilot billing.

Why MCP is emerging as a practical tool layer for AI agents How C# developers can build and register MCP servers What it takes to manage MCP servers reliably at scale As the AI industry pushes beyond ...

VS Code 1.119 was released May 6, 2026, headlining agent-browser interaction. Agents can now request shared access to browser tabs. Copilot Chat agent sessions now emit OpenTelemetry data. Microsoft ...