The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

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Microsoft says Agent Framework 1.0 is the production-ready release, with stable APIs and long-term support for both .NET and Python. The framework is presented as a unified successor path that builds ...

The new Visual Studio March Update touts "Build Your Own Custom Agents" so I had to immediately try that out. I pointed the IDE's Copilot Chat at an existing Blazor project and had it generate a ...

Google launches AI agent suite at Cloud Next 2026 with Workspace Studio, A2A protocol at 150 orgs, and Project Mariner. The pitch: only Google owns the full stack.

A large-scale campaign is targeting developers on GitHub with fake Visual Studio Code (VS Code) security alerts posted in the Discussions section of various projects, to trick users into downloading ...

The new family of AI models can run on a smartphone, a Raspberry Pi, or a data centre, and is free to use commercially.