October updates add deployment previews, Container Apps express support and environment cleanup, alongside stable extension APIs and a breaking Go API migration.

Microsoft explains how Hyperscale separates compute, logging and storage while retaining a single primary for writes and SQL Server transaction semantics.

Experiments with GitHub Copilot CLI found greater test awareness but no statistically significant change in agent behavior.

Microsoft's latest vcpkg summary covers a new compression-level option, cache fixes and registry updates including Boost 1.92.

New Agent Host functionality lets developers direct agents running on their own machines through GitHub Mobile, while maintaining sessions across VS Code windows and custom clients.

Microsoft's latest Visual Studio Code release expands AI agent capabilities with multi-model orchestration, cloud automations, desktop control and a marketplace for agent customizations.

Beyond its product announcements, GitHub says it added compute, storage and networking capacity for agent workloads.

Agents started more than 40% of September 2026 pull requests. GitHub reported 34.3 billion commits across public and private repositories. GitHub's 2026 Octoverse report portrays a sharp increase in ...

C++/WinRT offers both make and make_self for implementation objects. Windows developer Raymond Chen has published a C++/WinRT coding tip about avoiding unnecessary conversions when constructing ...

An Oct. 22 GitHub security interview examines why exploit chains and reproducible testing matter in vulnerability research.

An MIT-licensed Blazor component library is available without Syncfusion licensing, while framework fixes have already been merged.

The Microsoft AI and Azure MVP and longtime VSLive! speaker will help shape technical content and speaker lineups for the 2027 conference series.