The MSVC Build Tools Preview is updated regularly with the latest features and fixes from the MSVC (Microsoft C++) development team. The MSVC team’s updates for August 2026, targeting the Visual ...

C# expert Mark Michaelis explores what .NET developers still need to learn for themselves as AI takes on more coding work, highlighting DevOps, testing, technical debt and the engineering discipline ...

VS Code model picker now allows users to switch between Anthropic and Copilot providers between turns reconfiguring the agent host. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.133, an update to its ...

Kimsuky runs Ollama, GPT4All, and Msty offline while testing RAG and collecting AI libraries that could support phishing, malware, and data analysis.

Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday release is smaller than July's record-breaking update, but only by the standards of what has quickly become a new era of massive monthly security drops.

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Spread the loveFor years, the idea of running Docker on Windows felt a bit like a square peg in a round hole. Docker, born ...

Spread the loveIt’s August 2026, and if you’re a Windows user, you’ve probably heard the buzz. Microsoft just dropped its latest Patch Tuesday updates, and this one is a doozy. We’re talking about a ...

This should be the final preview release of .NET 11 before we get release candidates and a final release in November.

Microsoft releases .NET 11 Preview 7 with MSBuild server, NativeAOT changes, new C# features, and improvements across ASP.NET Core.

Both August client and server-side updates ship with empty known-issues lists. This may change over the coming days so checking back to the Microsoft Security Update Guide (MSRC) may be prudent.

New controls for model reasoning and Copilot code-review depth let developers decide how much AI effort a task warrants, with speed, depth and credit consumption all part of the tradeoff.