Visual Studio Magazine

Top 5 AI Tools for Visual Studio 2026

A review of five non-Copilot AI coding assistants available in the Visual Studio Marketplace that support Visual Studio 2026 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with Copilot Vision: VS Code's Head Start and How the IDE Is Catching Up

AI space! GitHub Copilot's vision and image-based features arrived first in VS Code in February 2025 and have since become ...
Road to VR

5 Lessons from Building ‘Bootstrap Island’: Best Practices for Creating Truly Immersive VR Worlds

Every game is the result of thousands of choices. Some of these choices are creative, some technical, and some concern the ...

Microsoft Virtual Studio Code is being targeted by North Korean hackers

The contagious interview campaign continues.

Can a newbie really vibe code an app? I tried Cursor and Replit to find out

I'm not a programmer, but I tried four vibe coding tools to see if I could build anything at all on my own. Here's what I did and did not accomplish.
InfoQ

Microsoft Open Sources XAML Studio, Reviving a Longstanding Prototyping Tool

Microsoft has officially open-sourced XAML Studio, a lightweight rapid prototyping tool for XAML-based UI development, under ...

I tried vibe coding an app as a beginner - here's what Cursor and Replit taught me

I tried four vibe-coding tools, including Cursor and Replit, with no coding background. Here's what worked (and what didn't).
NPR

Culture

January 23, 2026 • There are a lot of films and we are here to help! We've assembled details and coverage for the 14 films nominated in six major categories — all in one place.