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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.

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code development environment will move from monthly updates to a weekly release schedule, beginning with version 1.111, according to the development team.

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 ...

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