Microsoft's February 2026 Foundry update includes broader platform changes, but the most immediate developer-facing news for VS Code users is an AI Toolkit refresh centered on tool discovery, agent ...

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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 ...

Visual Studio 2026 is no longer a preview or a promise, it is a shipping product that developers can install today. Microsoft is positioning this release as a generational reset for its flagship IDE, ...

The Contagious Interview campaign weaponizes job recruitment to target developers. Threat actors pose as recruiters from crypto and AI companies and deliver backdoors such as OtterCookie and ...

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

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

Ring Team Announces Significant New Contributions by Developer Youssef Saeed Youssef’s contributions, creativity, and ...

Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution.