A quick hands-on proof of concept shows how Visual Studio's new custom-agent framework can be aimed at a real Blazor project, along with what else is new in the March update.

Amazon Q Developer outperformed GitHub Copilot Pro in some aspects, completing a complex editorial task in 5 minutes compared to Copilot's 15 minutes. While GitHub Copilot demonstrated superior ...

What happens when a self-hosted space lobster tries to work in Visual Studio 2026? OpenClaw finds terminal access, project insight, and just enough routing weirdness to send a message to itself ...

Omar Shahine's new Microsoft role focused on bringing OpenClaw and personal agents to Microsoft 365 adds weight to the workplace-assistant story for the open-source AI framework, even as its current ...

A proof of concept used OpenClaw's localhost dashboard inside VS Code's integrated browser to compare it directly with Copilot on the same SKILL.md file, finding that OpenClaw delivered broader, more ...

OpenClaw's Node for VS Code extension proved it can support a real local file-based workflow, but on Windows the experience still feels more like early infrastructure than finished tooling.

GitHub-hosted models in AI Toolkit draw from a shared public quota pool not designed for production use; deploying to Microsoft Foundry gives your agent a dedicated quota pool tied to your Azure ...

In a new video, Mads Kristensen walked through 10 extensions and updates aimed at common developer requests, spanning workspace modes, comment handling, scratch files, Markdown linting, CSV editing, ...

A smaller weekly VS Code release adds chat workflow refinements, semantic search changes, TypeScript 6.0, and new admin controls.

Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel ...

Christian Wenz explains why the Backends for Frontends (BFF) pattern is emerging as a more secure authentication model for single-page applications.

Compared to other regression techniques, a well-tuned neural network regression system can produce the most accurate prediction model, says Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research in presenting this ...