When I (along with many other people) had a lot of trouble trying to install SQL Server Management Studio in an attempt to switch from the SQL Server 2008 R2 evaluation to the free Express version, I ...

Brien Posey explains why PowerShell timers can cause Windows Forms dashboards to freeze or fail to update, and why keeping GUI scripts responsive requires a different approach to timed events.

A practical workaround shows how PowerShell developers can keep Windows Forms GUIs responsive by moving timer-driven processing into background jobs and using a second timer to update the interface ...

Visual Studio Code 1.121 focuses on agent workflows, model configuration, terminal behavior and built-in preview features -- and features another update to Claude Code functionality.

Visual Studio Code 1.119 adds browser-aware AI agents, token optimization, OpenTelemetry tracing, and Markdown usability ...

TeamPCP gained access to GitHub's private source code after an employee unknowingly installed a malicious coding tool.

Visual Studio has never really been the lightweight option. It's not the tool you open just to tweak a config file or write a quick script. It is the big Windows development environment, the one built ...

Microsoft has released VS Code 1.121 with remote AI agents, Mermaid rendering, HTML previews, and terminal optimizations.

Windows 11 is finally ditching web apps. Microsoft is doubling down on WinUI 3 to deliver a faster, fully native, and highly ...

If you were one of the users complaining that Claude Code has sucked lately, Anthropic just confirmed it wasn't all in your head. The company wrote in a lengthy blog post that after reviewing user ...

Sometime in early 2025, an attacker slipped malicious code into a Visual Studio Code extension, and a GitHub employee ...