In a new video, Mads Kristensen walked through 10 extensions and updates aimed at common developer requests, spanning workspace modes, comment handling, scratch files, Markdown linting, CSV editing, ...

OpenClaw's Node for VS Code extension proved it can support a real local file-based workflow, but on Windows the experience still feels more like early infrastructure than finished tooling.

A smaller weekly VS Code release adds chat workflow refinements, semantic search changes, TypeScript 6.0, and new admin controls.

A quick hands-on proof of concept shows how Visual Studio's new custom-agent framework can be aimed at a real Blazor project, along with what else is new in the March update.

What happens when a self-hosted space lobster tries to work in Visual Studio 2026? OpenClaw finds terminal access, project insight, and just enough routing weirdness to send a message to itself ...

Omar Shahine's new Microsoft role focused on bringing OpenClaw and personal agents to Microsoft 365 adds weight to the workplace-assistant story for the open-source AI framework, even as its current ...

Microsoft has released .NET Aspire 13.2 with a new AI-focused CLI for coding agents, preview TypeScript AppHost support, dashboard updates, and revised integrations.

Microsoft released TypeScript 6.0 on March 23, the last version built on the original JavaScript codebase, with three post-RC changes and a wave of deprecations designed to ready codebases for the ...

A hands-on test found that OpenClaw can work with VS Code for file-based drafting and source-driven synthesis, but the current experience is still centered on a local gateway and workspace model rathe ...

Microsoft's VS Code 1.113 release packages a range of smaller updates across agent experience, chat experience, and editor experience, arriving as the company shifts the editor to a weekly release ...

Running open-source AI locally in VS Code proved possible, but the path was more complicated than the polished model catalogs initially suggested. On a modest company laptop with 12 GB of RAM and no ...

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now includes a Tool Catalog that can scaffold a Python or TypeScript MCP server with the core transport and registration plumbing already set up. In ...