Microsoft's new Azure Skills Plugin bundles curated Azure skills, the Azure MCP Server, and the Foundry MCP Server into a single install that gives AI coding agents both the expertise and execution ...

Quadratic regression is a classical machine learning technique to predict a single numeric value. Quadratic regression is an extension of basic linear regression. Quadratic regression can deal with ...

VS Code's AI Toolkit and Microsoft Foundry can speed up agent development, but real-world success often depends on picking the right runtime and region, keeping tool-driven context under control, and ...

Visual Studio Code 1.110 (February 2026) adds new agent extensibility, browser-driving chat tools, and expanded chat accessibility.

TypeScript 6.0 RC represents the final major release built on the current JavaScript-based compiler. The upcoming TypeScript 7.0 will use a Go-based native implementation for enhanced speed and memory ...

Microsoft updates its reference WinUI 3 sample app with taskbar integration, clipboard samples, and quality-of-life fixes.

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

GPT-5.3-Codex moved to No. 1 in Quality on the Microsoft Foundry AI Model Leaderboard soon after release, while a cross-metric 'podium' scoring method put GPT-5-Nano on top overall for efficiency.

VS Code 1.111 Autopilot is not just a no-prompts mode. In testing, it handled a blocking question that still stopped Bypass.

Microsoft's February 2026 Foundry update includes broader platform changes, but the most immediate developer-facing news for VS Code users is an AI Toolkit refresh centered on tool discovery, agent ...

Microsoft introduces agent technology to Visual Studio, featuring curated assistants and personalized agent creation tools.

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 ...