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Visual Studio Professional 2026 is a 64-bit integrated development environment (IDE) built to dive into big, complex projects.

Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution.

In this topic we'll see how to use Visual Studio to create a new Windows App SDK project for a C# .NET or C++ app that has a WinUI 3 user interface (UI). We'll also take a look at some of the code in ...

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 ...

With the release of Visual Studio Code 1.111, Microsoft has moved its lightweight code editor to a weekly update schedule.

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

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Superpowers expands AI coding beyond specs into full workflow automation; a Rust Space Invaders demo reports 20,000 FPS in ...

Datadog MCP Server is a purpose-built interface designed for agentic systems, extending Datadog’s unified observability platform directly into AI workflows so that engineering teams can: ...

Microsoft's February 2026 Foundry update includes broader platform changes, but the most immediate developer-facing news for VS Code users is an AI Toolkit refresh centered on tool discovery, agent ...