VS Code's AI Toolkit and Microsoft Foundry can speed up agent development, but real-world success often depends on picking the right runtime and region, keeping tool-driven context under control, and ...

Pencil.dev focuses on design-to-code speed versus static tools; upcoming reusable component libraries are planned for 2026.

Microsoft introduces agent technology to Visual Studio, featuring curated assistants and personalized agent creation tools.

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 ...