In the AI developer boom, some of the most important battlegrounds are not glamorous models or splashy chatbots. They are the quiet pipes that keep modern coding tools fed and up to date.

Microsoft introduces agent technology to Visual Studio, featuring curated assistants and personalized agent creation tools.

The Container Tools extension makes it easy to build, manage, and deploy containerized applications from Visual Studio Code. It also provides one-click debugging of Node.js, Python, and .NET inside a ...

Pixel Agents adds a pixel office view in VS Code; six character styles show coding, searching, or idle states, useful for ...

Claude Code Superpowers plugin enforces TDD and hard checkpoints; it uses four debugging phases, trading speed for fewer skipped steps ...

Claude Code has pulled ahead of OpenAI's Codex in VS Code Marketplace adoption metrics for tools tagged with 'agent,' just one way to judge these tools for your particular needs in this rapidly ...

A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.js repositories to trigger a covert RCE-to-C2 chain through standard ...

A recreation of the classic Visual Basic 6 IDE and language in C# using Avalonia. This is a fun, toy project with no commercial intent. All rights to the Visual Basic name, icons, and graphics belong ...

Visual Studio Code 1.109 introduces enhancements for providing agents with more skills and context and managing multiple agent sessions in parallel. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.109, ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, ...