Open source champion Eclipse Foundation is advancing the Open VSX Registry, a vendor-neutral, community-supported alternative to the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace. However, while Microsoft's ...

NativeAOT command handling and the MSBuild server are now enabled by default. Preview 7 adds new runtime-async, C#, Blazor, MAUI and library capabilities. The .NET 11 Preview 7 SDK is version 11.0.100 ...

Microsoft calls enterprise AI agents a new category of insiders. Its proposed Guardian Agents would supervise agent actions continuously. Project Perception is positioned as a foundation for agent ...

GitHub Copilot offers three eagerness levels for inline code suggestions. Low eagerness reduced suggestion dismissals by 29% in Microsoft's experiments. High eagerness increased accepted and retained ...

The post explains that grounding connects extracted data to supporting document evidence, while confidence scores estimate the likelihood that specific extracted fields are correct. Applications can ...

The Stable Channel update also brings working-tree comparisons, an opt-in Copilot chat experience and keyboard tab controls.

The Microsoft AI and Azure MVP and longtime VSLive! speaker will help shape technical content and speaker lineups for the 2027 conference series.

Assisted permissions are generally available in three GitHub Copilot clients. An AI model evaluates command, file-system and URL access requests. Enterprise administrators can restrict permission ...

GitHub has updated Copilot usage reports to identify organizations' custom skills, agents, MCP servers, slash commands and plugins by name. The announcement replaces generic groupings for supported ...

An AI model evaluates permission requests. Requests classified as clearly safe proceed automatically. Enterprise administrators can restrict available permission modes. GitHub has made Copilot ...

Microsoft's latest Visual Studio Code release expands AI agent capabilities with multi-model orchestration, cloud automations, desktop control and a marketplace for agent customizations.

DirectX Raytracing previews reusable triangle clusters. Partitioned structures update changed scene regions instead of entire scenes. Availability depends on compatible preview drivers. Microsoft has ...