Visual Studio 2026 brings AI into your IDE for $50

Available for just $49.99 (reg. $499.99), Visual Studio Pro 2026 builds on what developers already like and quietly makes it ...

Can a newbie really vibe code an app? I tried Cursor and Replit to find out

I'm not a programmer, but I tried four vibe coding tools to see if I could build anything at all on my own. Here's what I did and did not accomplish.

Microsoft Copilot Studio extension for VS Code now publicly available

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment ...
InfoWorld

Getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio or VS Code

Learn how to use GitHub Copilot to generate code, optimize code, fix bugs, and create unit tests, right from within your IDE ...
IEEE

Visual Place Recognition: A Tutorial [Tutorial]

Abstract: Localization is an essential capability for mobile robots, enabling them to build a comprehensive representation of their environment and interact with the environment effectively toward a ...
GitHub

CodeSonar Extension for Visual Studio Code

This extension from CodeSecure provides access to static code analysis results from a CodeSonar hub inside Visual Studio Code. You will also need access to a CodeSonar hub running CodeSonar 7.1p0 or ...
GitHub

SmartBASIC Language Extension for Visual Studio Code

Laird Connectivity’s smartBASIC is an event-driven programming language that was designed to make BLE technology development quicker and simpler, vastly cutting down time to market. A simple ...