With progress slowing to a crawl, I researched Windows App SDK alternatives and then started experimenting with AI pair programming.

Microsoft has released ASP.NET Core in .NET 11 Preview 1, introducing new Blazor components like EnvironmentBoundary, Label, and DisplayName, along with relative URI navigation, QuickGrid row click ...

File-based apps, extension members, nameof improvements, and user-defined compound assignment operators make life easier for C# programmers. You’ll need .NET 10.

In a social media feedback thread started by Microsoft Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen, multiple developers unloaded on the IDE's facility with AI provided by GitHub Copilot and other tools.

Markdown is emerging in VS Code and Visual Studio 2026 as a version-controlled instruction layer that governs AI agents, reusable prompts and modular skills alongside traditional documentation.

Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions.

Spotify's top engineers are no longer writing code, instead directing AI to generate and review it. This shift, powered by an internal system called Honk, has significantly boosted product development ...

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 ...

Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not ...

Anthropic is fast approaching 100 percent automation internally, at least as far as humans writing code by hand is concerned. The company behind the viral Claude Code and Cowork coding tools, is ...