A review of five non-Copilot AI coding assistants available in the Visual Studio Marketplace that support Visual Studio 2026 ...

GitHub's new Agents tab centralizes Copilot coding agent sessions in a repository, making it easier to launch tasks, track progress, and review the resulting pull requests in standard tooling such as ...

PowerShell is now a lot more than a system management tool for Windows. The latest releases of PowerShell are built on the current cross-platform .NET and support macOS and Linux alongside the ...

Visual Studio Pro is one of the most popular IDEs you can use, but subscriptions are expensive. If you want a cheaper ...

Editor's note: I am pleased to bring you a new young blogger on Planet Analog, Tyler Deuty. He will be occasionally blogging and bringing us a really good perspective ...

Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET. Microsoft’s Visual Studio is its primary development ...

Syntax highlighting and auto-complete with IntelliSense. Smart completions based on variable types, function definitions, and imported modules. It is Extensible and customizable, supports Git commands ...

Note that GitHub Copilot isn’t optimized for R; the documentation says Copilot works “especially well” for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, C#, and C++. However, Copilot does make R code ...

About three years ago Microsoft released a new source code editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS. This was named Visual Studio Code. It is way lighter IDE than various editions of the legendary Visual ...