JetBrains has updated ReSharper, its .NET plugin for Visual Studio, with an out-of-process design that achieves a 61 percent reduction in UI freezes, the company claims. However, the new mode has ...

GitHub unveiled an open-source dev kit designed to help developers adopt spec-driven development with AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and Gemini CLI, moving beyond quick "vibe-coding" ...

Java Platform extension from Oracle brings full featured development support (edit-compile-debug & test cycle) to VS Code. It also offers support for Maven and Gradle projects. Applications using JDK ...

The Container Tools extension makes it easy to build, manage, and deploy containerized applications from Visual Studio Code. It also provides one-click debugging of Node.js, Python, and .NET inside a ...

comment Anthropic, a maker of AI tools, says that AI tools are now commonly used to commit cybercrime and facilitate remote worker fraud. By saying so in a 25-page report [PDF], the biz aims to ...

Although Visual Studio Code is a very useful lightweight code editor, it is actually vanilla Visual Studio that is Microsoft's flagship integrated development environment (IDE). As such, Microsoft ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

Microsoft announced two related updates for Visual Studio: support for bringing your own model (BYOM) to Copilot Chat and general availability of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) client in the IDE.