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Level up your Java coding with AI tools

AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot and IntelliJ IDEA are changing how Java developers code, debug, and modernize applications. From automating boilerplate to guiding framework upgrades, these tools ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS 2026 Joins VS Code with Integrated Cloud Agent: Assign a Task, Close the IDE, Get a PR

Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Curbs Token Use Ahead of Copilot's Controversial Usage-Based Billing Switch

Just two days after GitHub announced usage-based billing for Copilot, Microsoft shipped VS Code 1.118 -- under its new weekly release cadence -- with significant token efficiency improvements designed ...

Google Bets Agents Replace Apps. Here Is What That Means For Your IT Stack

Google retired Vertex AI and launched Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at Cloud Next 2026. Here is how the Build, Scale, ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I switched from VS Code's marketplace to Open VSX, and Microsoft's is the one falling behind

Truly open-source marketplace you can use with VSCodium.

New Xbox Boss Says 'We Know We Have Work to Do' as Console Revenue Continues to Plummet

New Xbox boss Asha Sharma has acknowledged the ongoing financial struggles of Microsoft’s gaming business, amid a shakeup and ...
Communications of the ACM

Yourdon Had a Point

Doug Meil is a software architect in healthcare data management and analytics, and an ACM Senior Member. He also founded the Cleveland Big Data Meetup in 2010. More of his BLOG@CACM posts can be found ...

Visual Studio April update adds autonomous cloud agents and a new debugger agent

Microsoft is making Visual Studio more agentic. New tools handle remote coding tasks and analyze live app behavior to find ...