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Today we're excited to announce the launch of the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo! The Awesome Copilot repo is a community-driven resource with custom instructions, reusable prompts, and custom chat modes that helps you get consistent AI assistance. In other words, Awesome Copilot helps you get the most out of GitHub Copilot by let...

Get ready for two days of deep technical insight, community connection, and hands-on learning at MCP Dev Days, a virtual event dedicated to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the emerging standard that bridges AI models and the tools they rely on. You can watch MCP Dev Days by registering on our event page: https://aka.ms/mcpdevdays. From th...

In today's fast-paced digital world, keeping the Visual Studio Marketplace secure and trustworthy is extremely important. We know how crucial it is to protect your extensions, so we're always working on new ways to keep things safe. We'd like to share an update on the existing safeguards and upcoming investments that ensure VS Marketplace remain...

For developers building in the field of AI, the industry moves so quickly that we often prioritise speed and execution over everything else. To keep up with the latest changes, many developers and enterprises are turning to open-source AI tools. One of the most popular tools today is LangChain, an open-source framework for building AI applications....

What if your dev tools could take the first pass at a feature, file a bug report, propose a fix—and deploy it? With Agentic DevOps and GitHub Copilot, they can. Here's how agents will reshape every step of the software development lifecycle.

In the fast-paced world of AI development, connecting intelligent applications to the tools and data sources they need can be challenging. That's why Model Context Protocol (MCP) is resonating with some many, an open standard that's transforming how developers integrate AI capabilities into their applications. MCP enables you to "connect once, int...

GitHub Copilot has evolved beyond a coding assistant in the IDE into an agentic teammate – providing actionable feedback on pull requests, fixing bugs and implementing new features, creating pull requests and responding to feedback, and much more. These new capabilities will transform every aspect of the software development lifecycle, as we are al...

At the beginning of April, agent mode rolled out to all users in Visual Studio Code. Since then, we’ve seen and heard how developers are embracing this tool and using it to transform their workflows. Now, just six weeks later, we’re excited to announce that it’s available to all developers using VS Code, Visual Studio, GitHub Codespaces, JetBrains ...

In tech, the ground shifts fast—new frameworks, new patterns, new demands. That’s why our developer tools need to move just as quickly. At Microsoft, we’re building tools that keep pace with how you build—whether you’re debugging locally in VS Code, deploying to Azure, or exploring what’s next with AI. Our goal: to help you ship faster, stay in fl...