OpenAI's "Codex" AI model is back, in a new form from the 2021 offering that powered the original GitHub Copilot and kickstarted the GenAI craze. Rather, the new Codex, now in research preview, is ...

"The gap between C# and Java never has been so small," says the latest edition of the TIOBE Index of programming language popularity. "Currently, the difference is only 1.2 percent, and if the trends ...

VS Code forks are diverging rapidly, not just in features, but in how they structure AI-assisted development workflows. Cursor emphasizes speed and visual polish, Windsurf leans toward dynamic ...

A new GitHub repo serves as a lab for creating a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server and using it in Microsoft Copilot Studio. The MCP, originated by AI leader Anthropic and taken open source, is a ...

Microsoft's fifth July update expands agent monitoring, adds offline speech transcription and changes Python environment management.

Test, test and test again. You can automate those tests with a TestServer-based Web app that doesn't even touch the Web server. With the advent of ASP.NET Core comes additional automated testing ...

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 ...

Microsoft's July release adds a Copilot Chat agent preview, workload-specific skills, shared instructions, branch context and C++ build controls.

"GitHub Spec Kit is an experiment-- there are a lot of questions that we still want to answer, and if community feedback is an indicator, there are quite a few features we can still add to make the ...

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.