Latest weekly update supports previewing videos in the image carousel, adds a Copy Final Response command to the chat context menu, and simplifies Copilot searches of codebases.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2026 helped my team code faster and with fewer errors.

The GitHub MCP Server connects AI tools directly to GitHub's platform. This gives AI agents, assistants, and chatbots the ability to read repositories and code files, manage issues and PRs, analyze ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

BREAKING CHANGE - Connection Encryption is now Enabled by Default - microsoft#17484 Moving to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.0.1 dependency with STS Update By default, saved connection profiles will ...

In addition to rolling out patches to address two zero-days affecting SQL Server and .NET, Microsoft introduced Common Log File System hardening with signature verification.

Bypass and Autopilot both suppress manual approval prompts. Autopilot is also designed to answer blocking questions automatically. In testing, that was the clearest visible difference between the two ...

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now includes a Tool Catalog that can scaffold a Python or TypeScript MCP server with the core transport and registration plumbing already set up. In ...