Visual Studio Magazine

6 days ago | visualstudiomagazine.com | David Ramel

News Uno Platform, a .NET-centric open source project for building single-codebase apps across web, Windows, iOS, Android, macOS, and Linux, this week announced v6.0 of its flagship offering, which introduces a zero-install, web-based IDE for rapid cross-platform development, alongside a modernized app architecture that embraces MVU and .NET-style extensions.

1 week ago | visualstudiomagazine.com | David Ramel

News "What MCP server would be helpful to use with Copilot in Visual Studio? I want to write one." With that May 6 social media post, Mads Kristensen, a principal program manager at Microsoft, solicited feedback on what is apparently his next pet project. Kristensen, who has been with Microsoft for nearly 15 years, is known for creating several popular extensions -- including Web Essentials and File Nesting -- that provide functionality that often gets baked into the IDE itself.

1 week ago | visualstudiomagazine.com | David Ramel

News Since the AI coding assistant space kicked off with GitHub Copilot, which came early to Visual Studio Code, other alternatives have sprung up, with Cursor among the most popular. Thanks to abilities such as deep codebase understanding and natural language refactoring, Cursor has risen in popularity among alternatives like Windsurf (formerly Codeium), Amazon Q, Replit's Ghostwriter,Tabnine and many more.

2 weeks ago | visualstudiomagazine.com | David Ramel

In-Depth Vibe coding began as a niche AI-driven workflow where developers prompt, accept, and tweak suggestions -- letting tools like Copilot steer the process. Now it's gaining mainstream traction, shifting coding from structured logic to reactive flow. And that same approach is starting to spill into other disciplines -- writing, designing, cloud architecture -- where working by vibe may become the new normal.

2 weeks ago | visualstudiomagazine.com | David Ramel

Q&A SQL development is evolving fast, and Microsoft.Build.Sql is leading the charge. This next-generation SDK brings flexible project structures, better source control integration, automated build-time validation, and streamlined deployments with Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions -- helping teams manage database changes as seamlessly as application code.