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 ...

Microsoft has released a preview of Visual Studio 2026, the first major version update since 2021, promising deeper AI ...

About three years ago Microsoft released a new source code editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS. This was named Visual Studio Code. It is way lighter IDE than various editions of the legendary Visual ...

Oracle has released JDK (Java Development Kit) 25, the first long term support (LTS) version since JDK 21 two years ago. New ...

Less than a month after the launch of ReSharper and Rider 2025.2, JetBrains is rolling out the first set of bug fix updates ...

Visual Studio 2026 integrates GitHub Copilot across the IDE to understand the coding context, make suggestions, and automate ...

Unreal Engine has a reputation for being somewhat overwhelming due to its steep learning curve. Unity is generally considered ...

Last week, Microsoft announced the release of .NET 10 RC 1, the first of two release candidates ahead of the final version.

GitHub has expanded its Copilot coding agent with a new agents panel, giving Visual Studio and VS Code users a centralized way to launch and track AI-driven coding tasks directly alongside their ...

Microsoft is signaling a shift in its AI priorities, favoring Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 over OpenAI's GPT-5 models in its flagship developer tool, Visual Studio Code.

Microsoft announced two related updates for Visual Studio: support for bringing your own model (BYOM) to Copilot Chat and general availability of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) client in the IDE.