Microsoft shifts Visual Studio Code to weekly releases, allowing faster AI feature updates and improvements to developer workflows.

Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP ...

Microsoft's Visual Studio February Update (18.3) adds new Copilot agents and workflows for WinForms guidance, test generation, call stack analysis, profiling with unit tests, C++ modernization, and ...

Pixel Agents adds a pixel office view in VS Code; six character styles show coding, searching, or idle states, useful for ...

Visual Studio Code 1.109 introduces enhancements for providing agents with more skills and context and managing multiple agent sessions in parallel. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.109, ...

I'm taking the road less traveled.

Visual Studio Code 1.110 (February 2026) adds new agent extensibility, browser-driving chat tools, and expanded chat accessibility.

Microsoft releases Windows Terminal 1.24 and Preview 1.25 with new settings tools, improved keybindings, faster I/O performance, and more.

Armed with an AI-built version of my app that supports multiple documents/tabs, I set out to rebuild WinUIpad myself. Again.

One IDE to rule them all. You won't want to use anything else.

With progress slowing to a crawl, I researched Windows App SDK alternatives and then started experimenting with AI pair programming.

Whether it is a 0.8B model running on a smartphone or a 9B model powering a coding terminal, the Qwen3.5 series is effectively democratizing the "agentic era." ...