The MSVC Build Tools Preview is updated regularly with the latest features and fixes from the MSVC (Microsoft C++) development team. The MSVC team’s updates for August 2026, targeting the Visual ...

This should be the final preview release of .NET 11 before we get release candidates and a final release in November.

Development environments have evolved into toolkits for directing coding models and coordinating agents. GitHub Copilot, ...

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The Visual Studio unable to attach to process. Access is denied error appears when Windows blocks Visual Studio from attaching its debugger to a running process. This ...

Developer Justin Marshall recently ported Word for Windows 1.1a to modern Windows systems. The open-source conversion draws ...

New controls for model reasoning and Copilot code-review depth let developers decide how much AI effort a task warrants, with speed, depth and credit consumption all part of the tradeoff.

Production telemetry from millions of GitHub Copilot users shows that 87 percent of LLM calls are initiated by the agent itself after a developer starts a turn, while failures can trigger lengthy ...

Follow President Trump’s progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service. A key ...

The visual system is the part of the central nervous system that is required for visual perception – receiving, processing and interpreting visual information to build a representation of the visual ...

The latest Surface firmware update is available for Surface Laptop and Surface Pro with Snapdragon X processors and Windows 11 version 24H2 or newer. You can download ...