Microsoft announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2026 on Nov. 11, during .NET Conf 2025. The release introduces what Microsoft calls the world's first Intelligent Developer Environment ...

MCP (Model Context Protocol) provides a universal standard for connecting LLMs to external data sources and tools, eliminating the need to manually copy-paste context into a chat session and enabling ...

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and offline models, but with some limits. Microsoft has been pushing hard to make ...