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News
Microsoft has aligned VS Code's existing agent-plugin feature with a vendor-neutral format for portable skills and MCP servers.
08/06/2026
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News
OpenAI unifies paid ChatGPT on Sol as Microsoft, GitHub and enterprise users scrutinize AI consumption and cost.
08/06/2026
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News
Microsoft's latest weekly VS Code release adds contextual side conversations, element-level web feedback and several smaller editor refinements.
08/05/2026
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Q&A
At Visual Studio Live! San Diego, Cognizant Senior Architect Manpreet Singh will show developers how to move beyond AI prototypes and build secure, governed, enterprise-ready intelligent agents with Azure AI Foundry.
08/04/2026
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Visual Studio Toolbox
Five free Marketplace extensions promise private, locally run coding assistance as developers look for alternatives to metered cloud AI.
08/04/2026
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The Data Science Lab
The variance inflation factor (VIF) of a dataset column is a value that measures the mathematical correlation of the column with other columns in the dataset. If a dataset has two or more columns that are correlated, the dataset is called multicollinear.
08/03/2026
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News
Microsoft's July release adds a Copilot Chat agent preview, workload-specific skills, shared instructions, branch context and C++ build controls.
07/30/2026
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Microsoft's fifth July update expands agent monitoring, adds offline speech transcription and changes Python environment management.
07/29/2026
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News
A hobby coder's rough return to Visual Studio highlights how IntelliSense, IntelliCode and GitHub Copilot have created several overlapping layers of code completion -- along with settings intended to keep them from fighting for attention.
07/28/2026
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News
Separate Oracle guides for Fusion AI Agent Studio and APEX development illustrate how VS Code has evolved from a popular editor into a foundation for an expanding range of developer experiences.
07/27/2026
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News
Microsoft is devoting an unusual share of the early VS Code 1.131 Insiders cycle to built-in dictation, Voice Mode and other speech-driven development features.
07/27/2026
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News
With devs reeling from usage-based billing sticker shock, Visual Studio 18.9 makes monthly Copilot plan usage easier to reach from the coding workflow while adding more cost information to a redesigned model picker.
07/24/2026
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Microsoft's latest weekly VS Code release advances shared agent sessions, multi-file change review, chat visibility and terminal navigation
07/23/2026
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Microsoft's newly released Agent Framework Harness packages the loops, planning, memory, context management and safety controls that developers previously had to assemble around AI models themselves.
07/22/2026
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Microsoft is moving Agent Skills beyond bring-your-own instructions by shipping expert-authored workflows with the IDE, while keeping them off by default until testing shows their benefits justify the additional token use.
07/21/2026
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News
GitHub is layering spending limits, expanded credit allowances and increasingly granular usage reporting onto Copilot, while Microsoft is reworking Visual Studio and VS Code to expose -- and reduce -- the cost of agentic development.
07/20/2026
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Q&A
René van Osnabrugge makes the case that AI's biggest opportunity in software development is not faster coding -- it's reducing the friction everywhere else in the SDLC.
07/20/2026
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News
Microsoft is keeping Visual Studio's new built-in Agent Skills switched off by default while a public dashboard measures whether their performance gains justify the additional tokens they may consume.
07/16/2026
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News
Visual Studio Code 1.129 adds a dedicated process for running AI agent sessions and an experimental docked editor for reviewing agent-generated changes.
07/16/2026
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News
Microsoft's sixth .NET 11 preview advances async validation, C# unions, cross-platform UI controls, database queries, testing tools, Native AOT and container images.
07/15/2026
