Microsoft's July release adds a Copilot Chat agent preview, workload-specific skills, shared instructions, branch context and C++ build controls.

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Copilot in Excel introduces new finance-focused capabilities that help teams work to their standards, use trusted financial data, and stay in control of every change. GPT‑5.5 Instant is now available ...

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a flexible, cross-platform editor that can be transformed into a full-blown IDE for most any language or workflow. Over the past few years, it has exploded in ...

replacing the NppPluginXXXX.zip from your visual studio (typically "My Documents\Visual Studio 20xx\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#\") with a newer version Upgrading plugings using the plugin ...

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Microsoft and the .NET community have created a new version of .NET, .NET Core, which is designed to be cross-platform, modular, and optimized for the cloud. In the future, more scenarios are likely ...

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA. There was a time when your choices for Java IDEs were ...

After having created an empty folder and opened it in Visual Studio Code, the next step is creating a Container Configuration File. We can easily do it from the command palette: The add-in comes with ...

The new Debugpy debugger for Python in Visual Studio Code hits version 1.0 in the latest update of the Python tooling for the open source, cross-platform code editor. Python for VS Code comes with the ...