Microsoft's Build 2026 Windows developer announcements point to a broader platform strategy for agentic AI, spanning terminal workflows, local models, app-building skills, Cloud PCs and operating ...

A journalist using GitHub Copilot Pro details how a broken editorial workflow on day one of usage-based billing led to runaway token consumption, a projected $180 monthly bill, and practical tactics ...

In an IDE AI update, this week we see JetBrains unveiling a new coding agent called Junie just as Microsoft introduced a free tier for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio. The moves are the latest efforts ...

Here's how you can use SQL Server's OpenJson function to dismantle JSON structures into relational tables targeting either transactional systems or data warehouses. JSON is great for moving data ...

Microsoft is applying lessons from Rust to C# in a planned redesign of the unsafe code model, continuing a years-long company focus on reducing memory-safety risks historically associated with C and C ...

With SQL Server 2016, you can store JSON objects in your rows. Here’s how to work with JSON objects, including how to update them once you’ve found them. In a previous Practical .NET column I showed ...

Microsoft highlighted Copilot planning, context visibility, diff review updates and MSVC Build Tools v14.51 in its May Visual Studio update.

NET 11 Preview 4 delivers a broad set of developer-facing updates across .NET MAUI, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, Entity Framework Core, the SDK, libraries and runtime performance work.

Uno Platform is positioning itself as a cross-platform modernization path for Windows Presentation Foundation apps, combining incremental migration, AI-assisted code translation, Model Context ...

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.

Some things never seem to change in the sprawling developer surveys published annually by Stack Overflow, such as JavaScript forever destined to be named the top programming language. That just seems ...