Markdown is emerging in VS Code and Visual Studio 2026 as a version-controlled instruction layer that governs AI agents, reusable prompts and modular skills alongside traditional documentation.

Microsoft's Visual Studio February Update (18.3) adds new Copilot agents and workflows for WinForms guidance, test generation, call stack analysis, profiling with unit tests, C++ modernization, and ...

Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions. Microsoft has introduced C++ ...

Orca has discovered a supply chain attack that abuses GitHub Issue to take over Copilot when launching a Codespace from that ...

GitHub Copilot testing for .NET in Visual Studio 2026 v18.3 can generate tests for the xUnit, NUnit, and MSTest test frameworks. Microsoft has made GitHub Copilot testing for .NET, a new capability in ...

AI-first editors and agent-driven tooling intensify competition in the IDE market The Open VSX registry, used for installing extensions in editors compatible with Visual Studio Code (VS Code), will ...

Cline CLI 2.3.0 was published with a stolen npm token, installing OpenClaw in an 8-hour attack affecting ~4,000 downloads.

North Korean-linked campaign publishes 26 malicious npm packages hiding C2 in Pastebin, deploying credential stealers & RAT via 31 Vercel deployments.

Software development changed faster in the past three years than in the previous decade. Open a modern IDE and an AI assistant greets you before the first line of code appears ...

Microsoft has updated Windows App Development CLI to v0.2, adding .NET support, manifest placeholders, and Microsoft Store ...