Visual Studio 2026 v18.8 includes built-in Agent Skills created by Microsoft's .NET and Azure teams. Skills provide reusable, task-specific instructions, workflows and guardrails that Copilot loads ...

Visual Studio 18.9 Insiders links the Copilot prompt box's context-usage indicator to developers' full monthly plan-usage details. The underlying usage window and quota alerts debuted in the June ...

Rust enters the top 10 for the first time, Python keeps the lead, C moves back above C++, and SQL edges out R in July’s rankings update. Rust has entered the TIOBE Index top 10 for the first time in ...

The Statistical & Data Sciences (SDS) Program links faculty and students from across the college interested in learning things from data. At Smith, students learn statistics by doing—class time ...