Microsoft announced a new VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026, an in-person build event at its Redmond campus focused on Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, GitHub Copilot and agent-based development.

VS Code 1.120 brings the Agents window to Stable preview, giving AI agent sessions and customizations a dedicated workspace.

For years Microsoft has been discussing moving to the Rust programming language for its dev teams in certain scenarios, primarily for the memory-safe aspects of the language as compared to C and C++, ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on an implementation of the technique that emphasizes simplicity and ease-of-modification over robustness and ...

Microsoft and GitHub have made GitHub Copilot app modernization available for both .NET and Java applications, offering developers an AI-powered path to upgrade legacy codebases and migrate them to ...

Microsoft Product Manager Mike Kistler previews his Visual Studio Live! session on how MCP servers give .NET developers a universal standard for connecting AI models to external data and tools -- and ...

Developers commenting on a Microsoft post about performance improvements in the upcoming .NET 8 demanded the company end Visual Studio 2022's dependency on the old .NET Framework. The comments came in ...

Microsoft announced the preview release of C# Dev Kit, a new extension for Visual Studio Code intended to improve the C# development experience on Linux, macOS, Windows and more. Released just over ...

A recent Windows 11 update includes Dev Drive, a new form of storage volume designed to improve performance for key developer workloads. That storage is based on the Resilient File System (ReFS), as ...

According to Microsoft, the decision to open source GitHub Copilot Chat stems from a growing demand for transparency in how AI-assisted developer tools work -- particularly around prompt engineering, ...

Microsoft announced the stable release of Azure MCP Server 1.0.0, describing it as the start of a new phase for cloud automation and AI-driven development. The open-source implementation of the Model ...

Along with a new default model, a new Consumptions panel in the IDE helps developers monitor their usage of the various models, paired with UI to help easily switch among models. GitHub Copilot in ...