Native browser integration in chat is designed to make web debugging tasks (DOM interaction, screenshots, console logs) available directly to AI agents. Agent workflows are expanding with ...

A hobby coder's rough return to Visual Studio highlights how IntelliSense, IntelliCode and GitHub Copilot have created several overlapping layers of code completion -- along with settings intended to ...

Is the original "AI pair programmer" helping developers be more productive? Several reports seeking to measure the impact of GitHub Copilot -- including one from GitHub itself -- have weighed in on ...

Microsoft is devoting an unusual share of the early VS Code 1.131 Insiders cycle to built-in dictation, Voice Mode and other speech-driven development features.

Separate Oracle guides for Fusion AI Agent Studio and APEX development illustrate how VS Code has evolved from a popular editor into a foundation for an expanding range of developer experiences.

Microsoft has released a stable, customizable Agent Framework Harness for building autonomous agents with .NET and Python. The harness combines an automatic tool-calling loop with planning, persistent ...

Microsoft is moving Agent Skills beyond bring-your-own instructions by shipping expert-authored workflows with the IDE, while keeping them off by default until testing shows their benefits justify the ...

With devs reeling from usage-based billing sticker shock, Visual Studio 18.9 makes monthly Copilot plan usage easier to reach from the coding workflow while adding more cost information to a ...

Microsoft is keeping Visual Studio's new built-in Agent Skills switched off by default while a public dashboard measures whether their performance gains justify the additional tokens they may consume.

GitHub is layering spending limits, expanded credit allowances and increasingly granular usage reporting onto Copilot, while Microsoft is reworking Visual Studio and VS Code to expose -- and reduce -- ...