Microsoft's February 2026 Foundry update includes broader platform changes, but the most immediate developer-facing news for VS Code users is an AI Toolkit refresh centered on tool discovery, agent ...

VS Code's AI Toolkit and Microsoft Foundry can speed up agent development, but real-world success often depends on picking the right runtime and region, keeping tool-driven context under control, and ...

Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions. Microsoft has introduced C++ ...

Visual Studio 2026 is no longer a preview or a promise, it is a shipping product that developers can install today. Microsoft is positioning this release as a generational reset for its flagship IDE, ...

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

In addition to rolling out patches to address two zero-days affecting SQL Server and .NET, Microsoft introduced Common Log ...

Editor's take: Microsoft is having a tough time leaving Windows Notepad well enough alone. The classic text editor is effectively gone, replaced by a "new" version that keeps accumulating a growing ...

Microsoft has quietly released its latest DirectX 12 Agility SDK (version 1.619 alongside the 1.719-preview), and while the patch notes are dense with developer jargon, the implications for PC gamers ...

Researchers at OX Security have detected four vulnerabilities in three of the most popular integrated development environments (IDEs) that could lead to cyber-attacks. In a report published on ...