Microsoft Visual Studio Pro was $500, but Now You Can Get It for Less Than $50

Visual Studio Pro is Microsoft’s main IDE, but it’s usually locked behind a monthly subscription. The reason I finally made ...
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Creating a Custom AI Agent in New Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Build

A quick hands-on proof of concept shows how Visual Studio's new custom-agent framework can be aimed at a real Blazor project, along with what else is new in the March update.

The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload

Sachin Kamdar, a co-founder of Elvex, an A.I. agent start-up, said he created a rule around 16 months ago that all of the ...
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Can OpenClaw Challenge Copilot in VS Code?

A proof of concept used OpenClaw's localhost dashboard inside VS Code's integrated browser to compare it directly with Copilot on the same SKILL.md file, finding that OpenClaw delivered broader, more ...