Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with New Experimental GitHub Copilot 'Agent Skills' in VS Code

Visual Studio Code 1.108 introduces Agent Skills for GitHub Copilot, enabling developers to define reusable, domain-specific ...

Meet Project Patchouli, an open-source drawing tablet project to 'build your own tablet from scratch'

For something intended to mimic good old pencil and paper, drawing tablets and the tech behind them are surprisingly complicated. If you fancy a crash course in how they work and want to build your ...

VSO says it won’t use confidentiality agreements in cases involving sexual misconduct

Open letter follows Esther Hwang’s allegations that the organization put pressure on her to sign an NDA to settle a ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Quietly Kills IntelliCode as AI Strategy Shifts to Subscription Copilot

Microsoft has officially begun decommissioning its IntelliCode suite, marking the end of a multi-year effort to provide local, machine-learning-assisted code completions. The move, executed alongside ...
Polygon

BG3 studio Larian says it's using genAI for Divinity, but not 'looking at trimming down teams to replace them'

Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity Original Sin developer Larian Studios generated a ton of hype (and no shortage of revulsion) when it revealed its next big role-playing game, Divinity, at The Game Awards ...
Microsoft

What’s new in Microsoft Copilot Studio: November 2025

In this edition of our monthly roundup, we’re highlighting a few of our biggest updates from Microsoft Ignite 2025 and walking through new capabilities available today. November 2025 was a busy month ...