Microsoft says AI is spreading across the development workflow, but developers remain focused on IDE fundamentals and .NET modernization.

Power BI's Copilot can help generate and explain DAX, create visuals, accelerate analysis and assist with data transformation, but Thomas LeBlanc says developers still need to validate every result.

VS Code 1.135 brings GitHub Copilot's cross-model critic into Agent Host sessions, while also adding external session continuation, Agents window refinements and more detailed token-usage reporting.

Microsoft's seventh .NET 11 preview expands runtime-async, developer tooling, libraries, C#, Blazor, MAUI, EF Core and Windows Forms.

GitHub Staff DevOps Architects Mickey Gousset and Ken Muse examine spectacular AI failures to uncover the recurring engineering and governance mistakes behind them -- and explain the guardrails ...

SQL Server 2025 gives developers new ways to work with text, JSON, real-time data changes and AI-ready vector data. Microsoft MVP Leonard Lobel explains why he considers it the most significant SQL ...

Visual Studio 2026 18.9 adds Low, Medium and High model thinking effort controls. Git worktrees let developers keep multiple branches active in separate working directories. Visual Studio now provides ...

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 ...

The 2026 Visual Studio Magazine Reader's Choice Awards mark the 32nd year of the annual reader-voted program. Readers voted across 40-plus categories covering tools, components and services used in ...

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