Visual Studio Code is an advanced editor that supports just about every programming language in use today. That is why Visual Studio Code has more buttons, knobs, and switches than a Martian starship.

Development environments have evolved into toolkits for directing coding models and coordinating agents. GitHub Copilot, ...

Multi-chat Claude sessions allow VS Code users to run multiple related conversation threads in one Claude agent session instead of separate top-level sessions. Visual Studio Code 1.128, the most ...

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 ...

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 provides tools to turn a slightly unreasonable idea and a blinking cursor into functional software.

The Dataverse plugin is available for GitHub Copilot, Claude and Cursor. The plugin routes natural-language requests across MCP, SDK and command-line tools. Microsoft expanded Dataverse MCP tools, ...

Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.