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Write code like you actually slept last night: Visual Studio 2026 is just $42.50

TL;DR: Developers can grab Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $42.50 (MSRP: $499.99) with code MARCH15 through ...
Hackaday

Arduino Code? On My 8051? It’s More Likely Than You Think

The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980.  They’ve since discontinued that ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Sharpens AI Toolkit for VS Code in Foundry Update

AI Toolkit for VS Code v0.30.0 adds a new Tool Catalog for discovering, configuring, and managing agent tools, including local stdio MCP servers and tools from the public Foundry catalog. A new Agent ...
GitHub

Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code

See the VS Code Tips wiki for a quick primer on getting started with VS Code. Setting up the JDK The extension requires JDK 17 or newer to run. Optionally, set a different JDK to compile and run ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft brings C++ smarts to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

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++ ...
GitHub

Semgrep Visual Studio Code extension

Semgrep is a fast, static analysis tool powered by an open-source engine for finding bugs, detecting vulnerabilities, and enforcing code standards. Semgrep Visual Studio Code extension scans lines ...