MCP (Model Context Protocol) provides a universal standard for connecting LLMs to external data sources and tools, eliminating the need to manually copy-paste context into a chat session and enabling ...

TL;DR: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 adds AI-driven features to simplify coding and boost accuracy, helping developers code faster at a more accessible price point. Coding isn’t an easy ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

Visual Studio Code is moving to weekly releases. Microsoft will replace the long-standing monthly update cycle with smaller weekly updates, starting with version 1.111, to deliver features more ...

description Learn to design your first relational database in Azure SQL Database using the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. For the purpose of this tutorial, we are using Azure SQL Database.

Copilot Pro includes a monthly allowance of premium requests, and premium-model usage can consume that allowance faster than expected (especially with agentic, multi-step workflows). When premium ...

The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...

A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...

Treat this as an immediate security incident, CISOs advised; researchers say it’s one of the most sophisticated supply chain attacks they’ve seen, and it’s spreading. A month after a self-propagating ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...

Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. is a senior ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.104. It comes with lots of new features, including intelligent AI switching. Microsoft has released the new August 2025 (version 1.104) update for Visual ...