OpenSilver 2.2 debuted today with a focus on helping developers revive Visual Studio LightSwitch legacy applications. OpenSilver was created as an open source alternative to Microsoft Silverlight, a ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) last week announced an agentic AI IDE called Kiro, adding to a growing camp of AI coding assistants based on Microsoft's ubiquitous open-source based Visual Studio Code ...

VS Code 1.120 brings the Agents window to Stable preview, giving AI agent sessions and customizations a dedicated workspace.

Microsoft announced a new VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026, an in-person build event at its Redmond campus focused on Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, GitHub Copilot and agent-based development.

Microsoft and GitHub have made GitHub Copilot app modernization available for both .NET and Java applications, offering developers an AI-powered path to upgrade legacy codebases and migrate them to ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on an implementation of the technique that emphasizes simplicity and ease-of-modification over robustness and ...

Microsoft Product Manager Mike Kistler previews his Visual Studio Live! session on how MCP servers give .NET developers a universal standard for connecting AI models to external data and tools -- and ...

Microsoft announced the preview release of C# Dev Kit, a new extension for Visual Studio Code intended to improve the C# development experience on Linux, macOS, Windows and more. Released just over ...

For years Microsoft has been discussing moving to the Rust programming language for its dev teams in certain scenarios, primarily for the memory-safe aspects of the language as compared to C and C++, ...

Developers commenting on a Microsoft post about performance improvements in the upcoming .NET 8 demanded the company end Visual Studio 2022's dependency on the old .NET Framework. The comments came in ...

Microsoft announced expanded AI model support in Visual Studio Code through a new Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) capability that lets developers connect models from different providers by entering their ...

Microsoft's latest Visual Studio preview facilitates "vibe coding," where developers mainly use GitHub Copilot AI to do all the programming in accordance with spoken or typed instructions. The term ...