-
Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions infrastructure while the developer moves on, is a meaningfully different way to use AI assistance.
04/29/2026
-
The April update suppresses Copilot completions while IntelliSense is active, addressing a long-running editor conflict.
04/28/2026
-
GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, prompting user concerns about predictability, model access, monthly credit limits and whether unchanged plan prices will translate into less included usage.
04/27/2026
-
VS Code 1.117 adds bring-your-own model key support for Copilot Business and Enterprise users and introduces a set of chat, agent, terminal, and TypeScript updates.
04/23/2026
-
Microsoft's new move to ship Azure MCP tools inside Visual Studio 2022 adds to a small but notable pattern of selected Visual Studio 2026-era functionality later showing up in the older IDE, led by a cluster of MCP management features and, outside the MCP category, the Copilot Profiler Agent.
04/22/2026
-
At VSLive! Las Vegas, Mads Kristensen revealed Visual Studio 2027 as part of a broader shift toward AI-assisted development and a more continuous release cadence for Microsoft's flagship IDE.
04/17/2026
-
Now shipping in the VS Code Insiders build, Microsoft's new Visual Studio Code Agents preview offers an early look at a separate companion app for agent sessions, approvals, workspace discovery, and supervised review loops.
04/16/2026
-
Across the April 8 and April 15, 2026 releases, Visual Studio Code expanded its agent-focused tooling with a new companion app, better terminal interaction, session debugging and more built-in Copilot functionality.
04/16/2026
-
A proof of concept used OpenClaw's localhost dashboard inside VS Code's integrated browser to compare it directly with Copilot on the same SKILL.md file, finding that OpenClaw delivered broader, more redesign-oriented analysis while Copilot focused on narrower, maintenance-minded fixes.
04/06/2026
-
Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel foundations, AutoGen orchestration concepts, and stable APIs for .NET and Python.
04/06/2026
-
OpenClaw's Node for VS Code extension proved it can support a real local file-based workflow, but on Windows the experience still feels more like early infrastructure than finished tooling.
04/03/2026
-
A smaller weekly VS Code release adds chat workflow refinements, semantic search changes, TypeScript 6.0, and new admin controls.
04/02/2026
-
Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression from scratch using JavaScript. The goal of decision tree regression is to predict a single numeric value. For simplicity and better maintenance, the demo implementation uses list storage instead of pointers. For better customization and interpretability, the implementation uses list iteration instead of recursion or a stack algorithm.
04/01/2026
-
By OpenClaw AI
What happens when a self-hosted space lobster tries to work in Visual Studio 2026? OpenClaw finds terminal access, project insight, and just enough routing weirdness to send a message to itself instead of editing code -- which, honestly, is not not on-brand.
04/01/2026
-
A quick hands-on proof of concept shows how Visual Studio's new custom-agent framework can be aimed at a real Blazor project, along with what else is new in the March update.
03/31/2026
-
Microsoft's VS Code 1.113 release packages a range of smaller updates across agent experience, chat experience, and editor experience, arriving as the company shifts the editor to a weekly release cadence that the team says has been accelerated by its internal use of AI.
03/27/2026
-
A hands-on test found that OpenClaw can work with VS Code for file-based drafting and source-driven synthesis, but the current experience is still centered on a local gateway and workspace model rather than a polished native editor integration
03/25/2026
-
Microsoft has released .NET Aspire 13.2 with a new AI-focused CLI for coding agents, preview TypeScript AppHost support, dashboard updates, and revised integrations.
03/25/2026
-
VS Code 1.112 adds native image support for agents, and I used it on three Microsoft AI Foundry leaderboard screenshots to see whether it could turn chart-heavy visuals into a useful developer summary.
03/19/2026
-
Visual Studio Code 1.112, released March 18, expands Copilot agent autonomy, adds MCP server sandboxing on macOS and Linux, enables in-editor web app debugging, and broadens monorepo support for agent customizations.
03/19/2026
-
Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end example of random forest regression to predict a single numeric value, implemented using C#. A random forest is a collection of basic decision tree regressors that have been trained on different subsets of the source training data. The technique reduces model overfitting to give more accurate predictions on new, previously unseen data.
03/18/2026
-
This hands-on PoC shows how I got an open-source model running locally in Visual Studio Code, where the setup worked, where it broke down, and what to watch out for if you want to apply a local model to a real workflow.
03/17/2026
-
Microsoft's new Azure Skills Plugin bundles curated Azure skills, the Azure MCP Server, and the Foundry MCP Server into a single install that gives AI coding agents both the expertise and execution tools needed to perform real Azure operations end to end.
03/13/2026
-
VS Code 1.111 Autopilot is not just a no-prompts mode. In testing, it handled a blocking question that still stopped Bypass.
03/12/2026
-
Microsoft's VS Code 1.111 release adds agent permissions, Autopilot preview, agent-scoped hooks and new debugging tools.
03/11/2026