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 ...
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 ...
IEEE

Compiler-Runtime Co-operative Chain of Verification for LLM-Based Code Optimization

Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown promise in compiler optimizations such as loop vectorization and memory access restructuring. However, due to their generative nature, ...