Latest updates make AI agents easier to automate, troubleshoot and optimize, while expanding model choices and local development capabilities. Key Takeaways ...

New version 3.0 gives Windows developers early access to new controls, including TableView, Charts and InkCanvas, before their APIs are finalized.

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.