Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On: VS 2026 Insiders Adds Guided Skill Building in Agent Mode

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders includes a Skills panel for discovering, managing and creating Agent Skills. Agent Mode can help fill in a generated SKILL.md template, propose implementation steps and ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with Copilot Vision: VS Code's Head Start and How the IDE Is Catching Up

A hands-on test in VS Code showed Copilot using a degraded mockup image as the primary input to generate a working, navigation-capable web site, a significant step beyond last year's single-page ...
TechRepublic

Microsoft Visual Studio 2026 Arrives With ‘AI Woven Into Workflow’

Visual Studio 2026 has Fluent UI and ships with 11 tinted themes. Source: Microsoft Dev Blogs Microsoft unveils Visual Studio 2026 with deeper AI integration, faster performance, and a refreshed ...
InfoWorld

Review: Visual Studio Code shines for Java

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA. There was a time when your choices for Java IDEs were ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code 1.115 introduces VS Code Agents app

Preview of new companion app allows developers to run multiple agent sessions in parallel across multiple repos and iterate on human and agent reviews. Visual Studio Code 1.115, the latest release of ...