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

A modern Task Scheduler for Windows 11 exists now, and honestly Microsoft should be embarrassed. Plus, it's free.

The next major release, .NET 11, should arrive in November 2026, and the project recently unveiled its first public preview. Like earlier first looks, it’s nowhere near feature complete, with several ...

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.

Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP ...

In addition to rolling out patches to address two zero-days affecting SQL Server and .NET, Microsoft introduced Common Log ...

Microsoft's new Azure Skills Plugin bundles curated Azure skills, the Azure MCP Server, and the Foundry MCP Server into a single install that gives AI coding agents both the expertise and execution ...

Visual Studio Professional 2026 is a 64-bit integrated development environment (IDE) built to dive into big, complex projects.

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 ...