Build faster, debug smarter, and pay way less for Visual Studio 2026 - only $50

If you've been waiting for a reason to upgrade your development environment, this is it. Grab Visual Studio Professional 2026 ...

Visual Studio 2026 brings AI into your IDE for $50

Available for just $49.99 (reg. $499.99), Visual Studio Pro 2026 builds on what developers already like and quietly makes it ...
Computer Weekly

Microsoft open sources XAML Studio

XAML Studio is a rapid software application development prototyping tool that started out life as a Microsoft Garage project. It is intended to help developers to quickly build and preview User ...

Microsoft Copilot Studio extension for VS Code now publicly available

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment ...
The Hacker News

North Korea-Linked Hackers Target Developers via Malicious VS Code Projects

North Korean hackers abuse Visual Studio Code task files in fake job projects to deploy backdoors, spyware, and crypto miners ...
InfoQ

Microsoft Open Sources XAML Studio, Reviving a Longstanding Prototyping Tool

Microsoft has officially open-sourced XAML Studio, a lightweight rapid prototyping tool for XAML-based UI development, under ...
The Hacker News

North Korean PurpleBravo Campaign Targeted 3,136 IP Addresses via Fake Job Interviews

North Korean PurpleBravo hackers targeted 3,136 IPs and 20 companies using fake interviews, malicious VS Code projects, and ...

Can a newbie really vibe code an app? I tried Cursor and Replit to find out

I'm not a programmer, but I tried four vibe coding tools to see if I could build anything at all on my own. Here's what I did and did not accomplish.