SQL Server 2025 adds long-requested developer capabilities including regular expressions, fuzzy string matching and major enhancements for working with JSON. Change Event Streaming lets applications ...

Back in 2017, the VS Code dev team wasn't interested in providing an integrated browser, but I was. My, how times have changed. I road-tested latest tech to see if it could replace my aging extension ...

Amber Vanderburg previews her Visual Studio Live! Orlando session on using AI to improve leadership communication, decision-making and team adoption without handing over the human judgment that ...

The latest release of the .NET-centric Uno Platform Studio adds isolated UI previews, reusable XAML snippets, more targeted AI prompting and a new default design system, extending the browser-based ...

Agent Merge, multi-root sessions and new agent-session organization extend VS Code's AI tooling beyond code generation and into pull request completion, orchestration and review.

Microsoft's Mads Kristensen asked developers what they want from Visual Studio's Test Explorer, drawing recurring calls for better reliability, smarter test execution, improved filtering and the ...

The 2026 Visual Studio Magazine Reader's Choice Awards mark the 32nd year of the annual reader-voted program. Readers voted across 40-plus categories covering tools, components and services used in ...

MSSQL v1.45 adds a built-in T-SQL formatter in public preview. Azure SQL Database Provisioning is now generally available. Shortcuts Configuration also moves to general availability. Microsoft has ...

Microsoft has formally detailed the Agent Host architecture already appearing in recent VS Code releases. Agent Host separates AI sessions from individual editor windows so sessions can persist and ...

NativeAOT command handling and the MSBuild server are now enabled by default. Preview 7 adds new runtime-async, C#, Blazor, MAUI and library capabilities. The .NET 11 Preview 7 SDK is version 11.0.100 ...

Visual Studio 2026 18.9 adds Low, Medium and High model thinking effort controls. Git worktrees let developers keep multiple branches active in separate working directories. Visual Studio now provides ...

Visual Studio 18.10 Insiders previews Bring Your Own Model support for Microsoft Foundry, OpenAI, Anthropic and Ollama through the new Agent (Preview). A local Qwen3:4b model running through Ollama ...