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In future, Microsoft will publish stable releases of Visual Studio Code weekly instead of monthly.
Forthcoming update of the rapid prototyping tool for WinUI developers, now available on GitHub, adds a new Fluent UI design, folder support, and a live properties panel.
With Visual Studio Code 1.107, developers can use GitHub Copilot and custom agents together and delegate work across local, background, and cloud agents.
Amazon Q Developer is a useful AI-powered coding assistant with chat, CLI, Model Context Protocol and agent support, and AWS expertise.
Google’s agentic AI development environment includes multiple agent models and browser automation with Chrome.
Agent HQ provides a single location for managing both local and remote coding agents and introduces a plan agent that breaks down complex tasks into steps before coding.
Touted as an “AI-native intelligent development environment,” Visual Studio 2026 features performance and user experience improvements in addition to AI-powered debugging, profiling, and more.
October 2025 update makes the Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 coding models available for use in the GitHub Copilot chat window.
The first preview of Visual Studio 2026, with deeper GitHub Copilot AI integration, is available through Microsoft’s new Insiders channel.
PyApp seems to be taking the Python world by storm, providing long-awaited click-and-run Python distribution. For developers who need a little more versatility, there’s uv. Find these tools and more in this week’s Python Report.
Microsoft C++ Code Analysis has been updated in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14 to provide better tracking, justification, and overall management of warning suppressions.
Swift 6.2 improves concurrency and interoperability with C++ and Java, SwiftUI adds support for the new Liquid Glass design, and Xcode 26 extends to LLMs beyond ChatGPT.
Malicious extensions that install a cryptominer were released just as the weekend started.