Microsoft's latest editor update moves AI collaboration beyond chat, adds new ways to manage agent sessions and gives enterprises more control over coding agents.

Microsoft's latest update expands agent management, adds cross-platform sandboxing and lets developers pick up AI conversations started in other apps.

Microsoft's second release candidate adds cryptography APIs, mobile and desktop development improvements, and package management controls ahead of next month's final release.

Recent releases expand AI coding agents' capabilities while adding sandboxing, monitoring and enterprise controls that can restrict their autonomy and even their availability.

Ahead of his Visual Studio Live! session, Marcel de Vries explains how .NET teams can expose useful application capabilities to AI agents, starting with focused, read-only tools and user-specific ...

When you need to integrate authorization with procedural code, you're going to need your application's ClaimsPrincipal object so that you can check the user's authorization claims. Here's both how to ...

VS Code's AI Toolkit Agent Builder can wire an agent to external tools via MCP, even for non-coding editorial workflows. Early friction points included circular UX flows, model availability mismatches ...

Microsoft's editors remain prominent in the 2026 developer survey, while GitHub Copilot trails Claude Code and ASP.NET Core ranks fourth among web technologies.

Researchers analyzing GitHub Copilot telemetry found that about 87 percent of LLM calls were agent-initiated after a developer began a turn. LLM calls and tool invocations occurred at nearly a 1:1 ...

Seven social media posts preview changes spanning Markdown image handling, merge conflicts, keyboard shortcuts, testing and AI chat.

GitHub, Microsoft and Live!360 speakers offer advice on how developers can stay essential as AI takes on more work, from preserving engineering knowledge to exercising judgment and directing agents.