New root cause analysis technology gives AI coding agents the ability to diagnose application failures and deliver actionable debugging insights with less developer involvement.

Hobbyist developers are seeing faster builds and simpler code thanks to C++26 features like static reflection and contracts, paired with toolchain updates in CMake, Clang, and Visual Studio. These ...

Visual Studio has never really been the lightweight option. It's not the tool you open just to tweak a config file or write a quick script. It is the big Windows development environment, the one built ...

According to @gdb, GPT-5.5 is now generally available and rolling out in GitHub Copilot, with early testing indicating its strongest performance on complex agentic coding tasks and the ability to ...

Visual Studio 2026 18.5 arrives with two headline changes – a smarter code suggestion system and an AI-powered debugger. Yet developer frustration over color contrast and forced updates continue to ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code version 1.116, introducing a set of AI-focused improvements that refine developer workflows and make Copilot available out of the box. The update is now ...

VS Code 1.112 shipped March 18 with expanded Copilot agent autonomy controls. A new Autopilot permission level lets Copilot CLI run tasks without user approval dialogs. MCP server sandboxing restricts ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.112, shortly after announcing a faster release cadence for the popular editor. Despite the quicker update cycle, this release introduces several notable ...

description: Use the Call Stack window in the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) to view the function or procedure calls that are currently on the stack. # View the call stack and ...

Modern debugging combines AI, automation, and monitoring to improve software reliability and reduce long-term costs. Choosing the right mix of traditional and intelligent tools helps teams detect ...

The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...

Microsoft is focusing on long-term stability and more flexible developer tooling with its new “AI-native” Visual Studio 2026 IDE and .NET 10. These new releases are aimed at two main business goals: ...