Free Pencil AI Design Tool Quickly Creates Editable UI Layouts Complete with Style Guides

Pencil AI adds AI layout generation with style guides and reusable components, plus SVG illustration support for custom screens ...

Pencil.dev Merges Visual Design and Code Output into One Responsive Workflow

Pencil.dev focuses on design-to-code speed versus static tools; upcoming reusable component libraries are planned for 2026.
ZDNet

Microsoft integrates Black Duck open-source tools with Visual Studio

Black Duck Hub is a database and code-checking service. Its database, Black Duck KnowledgeBase, contains data on over 2 million open-source projects and 79,000+ known open-source vulnerabilities.
Visual Studio Magazine

Top 5 AI Tools for Visual Studio 2026

Visual Studio 2026 includes GitHub Copilot functionality built into the IDE, while third-party AI coding assistants remain available through the Visual Studio Marketplace. Using Marketplace install ...