Visual Studio Magazine

Building and Using MCP Servers in Visual Studio

Microsoft Product Manager Mike Kistler previews his Visual Studio Live! session on how MCP servers give .NET developers a universal standard for connecting AI models to external data and tools -- and ...
InfoQ

GitHub Enhances CodeQL with Declarative Security Modeling for Faster, More Flexible Analysis

GitHub has introduced a significant update to its CodeQL engine, enabling developers to define custom sanitizers and ...
WinBuzzer

VS Code Now Stamps GitHub Copilot as Git Commit Co-Author

Visual Studio Code 1.118 now stamps a Copilot co-author trailer on Git commits by default after PR #310226 flipped ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS 2026 Joins VS Code with Integrated Cloud Agent: Assign a Task, Close the IDE, Get a PR

Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions ...
InfoQ

GitHub Targets Large Merge Problem with Stacked PRs

GitHub has launched a native stacked pull request workflow through a new CLI extension called gh-stack, closing a gap that ...

GitHub fixes RCE flaw that gave access to millions of private repos

In early March, GitHub patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-3854) that could have allowed ...
SecurityWeek

Critical GitHub Vulnerability Exposed Millions of Repositories

Wiz discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability in GitHub that exposed millions of repositories.