After rolling out Agent Host functionality across recent VS Code releases, Microsoft is detailing the architecture behind persistent agent sessions and opening its Agent Host Protocol to third-party ...

Visual Studio 2026 version 18.9 adds adjustable AI reasoning, organization-wide agents, Git worktrees and integrated submodule management.

Visual Studio Magazine readers have selected their favorite third-party tools, components and services across 43 categories in the 2026 Reader's Choice Awards.

The cloud-native tooling adds dashboard terminals, richer AppHost interactions, TypeScript GA and deployment updates.

Update adds multi-window agent sessions, side-by-side chats, conversation search and an integrated HTML preview workflow.

SQL Server 2025 adds long-requested developer capabilities including regular expressions, fuzzy string matching and major enhancements for working with JSON. Change Event Streaming lets applications ...

NativeAOT command handling and the MSBuild server are now enabled by default. Preview 7 adds new runtime-async, C#, Blazor, MAUI and library capabilities. The .NET 11 Preview 7 SDK is version 11.0.100 ...

Model Context Protocol gives AI clients a standardized way to discover and use external tools and data, and Microsoft's Power BI MCP servers bring that approach to semantic models. Ginger Grant's Live ...

Visibility is not just a personality trait; it is a repeatable skill developers can learn and practice. Strong technical work often needs translation into business outcomes such as time saved, risk ...

Microsoft's MSSQL extension v1.45 previews a configurable T-SQL formatter while two existing features reach GA.