In addition to rolling out patches to address two zero-days affecting SQL Server and .NET, Microsoft introduced Common Log File System hardening with signature verification.

As a tech journalist who quickly latched onto agentic AI to improve my editorial processes, I've become a Markdown maven. Markdown, as every Visual Studio Magazine reader knows, was previously best ...

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This dynamic test added server-side logic, persistence across restarts, session-based admin auth, and a post-build refactor, going beyond static page generation. Both environments required repeated ...

description: Learn how to use the .runsettings file in Visual Studio to configure unit tests that are run from the command line, from the IDE, or in a build workflow. # Configure unit tests by using a ...

The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...

description: Learn about the two command-line shells for developers in Visual Studio, the Developer Command Prompt and the Developer PowerShell. # Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt and Developer ...

A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...

Microsoft has claimed that changing keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio 2026 is a "high-stakes juggling act", in which even telemetry isn't enough. Visual Studio is the integrated development ...

You start by getting the official installer from the Visual Studio Code website. Open your preferred browser on Windows. Go to the Visual Studio Code download page ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...