Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2026 helped my team code faster and with fewer errors.

What happens when a self-hosted space lobster tries to work in Visual Studio 2026? OpenClaw finds terminal access, project insight, and just enough routing weirdness to send a message to itself ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

BREAKING CHANGE - Connection Encryption is now Enabled by Default - microsoft#17484 Moving to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.0.1 dependency with STS Update By default, saved connection profiles will ...

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.

Bypass and Autopilot both suppress manual approval prompts. Autopilot is also designed to answer blocking questions automatically. In testing, that was the clearest visible difference between the two ...