René van Osnabrugge makes the case that AI's biggest opportunity in software development is not faster coding -- it's reducing the friction everywhere else in the SDLC.

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 -- ...

Visual Studio Code 1.129 adds a dedicated process for running AI agent sessions and an experimental docked editor for reviewing agent-generated changes.

Microsoft is extending Dataverse into coding-agent marketplaces while expanding its MCP tools, certification program and governance controls.

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.

Beyond Copilot usage visibility, the June update delivers several other enhancements centered on AI-assisted development, security and quality-of-life improvements. Here's a quick rundown of the ...

VS Code 1.120 brings the Agents window to Stable preview. The new window opens from a title-bar button. Agent customizations include Agents, Skills, Instructions, Hooks, MCP Servers and Plugins. It ...

Visual Studio Code is Microsoft's lightweight, cross-platform, open source code editor with IDE-like features. Since being introduced in 2015, it has been continually gaining in popularity, ...

Protect your ASP.NET applications from Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks by leveraging ARMOR, a C# implementation of the Encrypted Token Pattern. Here's how. The Encrypted Token Pattern is a defense ...

A good way to see where this article is headed is to take a look at the screen shot of a demo program shown in Figure 1. The demo sets up a dummy dataset of six items: [ 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2] [ 5.4 3.9 1.7 ...

The July 8, 2026, Visual Studio Code update expands agent workflows, chat attachments, browser-tab controls, OS-level shortcuts and enterprise telemetry management.