Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP ...

Right now, StackSocial is offering Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for Windows as a lifetime license for just $50.

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AI tools like Claude are becoming embedded in engineers' day-to-day work, which means outages can send them back to an ...

The new release allows using experimental agent plug-ins and the new Agent Debug Panel offers detailed insights into chat ...

IBM announced it is offering the IBM Db2 Developer Extension for Visual Studio (VS) Code-now generally available. Developers live in VS Code, but Db2 development often means switching tools to set up ...

Visual Studio Code 1.110 (February 2026) adds new agent extensibility, browser-driving chat tools, and expanded chat accessibility.

AI-first editors and agent-driven tooling intensify competition in the IDE market The Open VSX registry, used for installing extensions in editors compatible with Visual Studio Code (VS Code), will ...

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Microsoft's February 2026 Foundry update includes broader platform changes, but the most immediate developer-facing news for VS Code users is an AI Toolkit refresh centered on tool discovery, agent ...

Once I had Clairvoyance up and running, I asked it to perform a code review of WinUIpad and, over time, fix all the issues.

Armed with an AI-built version of my app that supports multiple documents/tabs, I set out to rebuild WinUIpad myself. Again.