Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

Open-source software tools continue to surge in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...

Visual Studio Code 1.130 is the latest weekly update from Microsoft. The company focused heavily on agents in this update.

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 provides tools to turn a slightly unreasonable idea and a blinking cursor into functional software.

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has rapidly become one of the most popular code editors among developers worldwide. Its flexibility, ease of use, and robust features make it a go-to choice for everything ...

This vibe coding cheat sheet explains how plain-language prompts can build apps fast, plus the planning, testing, and security checks needed. Software development is undergoing a seismic shift as vibe ...

Microsoft has just released the April update for Visual Studio 2026 with a focus on cloud agent integration. Cloud agents run on remote infrastructure, enabling scalable, isolated execution, and now ...

Preview of new companion app allows developers to run multiple agent sessions in parallel across multiple repos and iterate on human and agent reviews. Visual Studio Code 1.115, the latest release of ...

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...

Running your code in Visual Studio only takes a few clicks once your project is configured correctly. Here’s how to start, debug, and test apps across different programming languages. Follow these ...