WinUIpad: AI to the Rescue

With progress slowing to a crawl, I researched Windows App SDK alternatives and then started experimenting with AI pair programming.
GitHub

Container Tools for Visual Studio Code

The Container Tools extension makes it easy to build, manage, and deploy containerized applications from Visual Studio Code. It also provides one-click debugging of Node.js, Python, and .NET inside a ...
InfoQ

Vercel Releases React Best Practices Skill with 40+ Performance Rules for AI Agents

Vercel has launched "react-best-practices," an open-source repository featuring 40+ performance optimization rules for React and Next.js apps. Tailored for AI coding agents yet valuable for developers ...

Pixel Agents Creates a Pixel Office View for Your AI Coding Agents

Pixel Agents adds a pixel office view in VS Code; six character styles show coding, searching, or idle states, useful for ...
Microsoft

Developer-targeting campaign using malicious Next.js repositories

A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.js repositories to trigger a covert RCE-to-C2 chain through standard ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft brings C++ smarts to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions.
Visual Studio Magazine

Comparing Amazon Q and GitHub Copilot Agentic AI in VS Code

This head-to-head test compared Amazon Q Developer and GitHub Copilot Pro using a real-world editorial workflow to evaluate their performance as 'agentic' assistants beyond simple coding. Both tools ...