Visual Studio Professional 2026 Lifetime License at 90% Off Now Costs the Same as One Month of Microsoft’s Subscription on Stacksocial

Right now, StackSocial is offering Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for Windows as a lifetime license for just $50.
Visual Studio Magazine

Custom Agents Transform Visual Studio with Built-In and DIY Options

Microsoft introduces agent technology to Visual Studio, featuring curated assistants and personalized agent creation tools.
IEEE

Code-as-Monitor: Constraint-aware Visual Programming for Reactive and Proactive Robotic Failure Detection

Abstract: Automatic detection and prevention of open-set failures are crucial in closed-loop robotic systems. Recent studies often struggle to simultaneously identify unexpected failures reactively ...
Visual Studio Magazine

WinForms Gets Some AI Love in Visual Studio February Update

Microsoft's Visual Studio February Update (18.3) adds new Copilot agents and workflows for WinForms guidance, test generation, call stack analysis, profiling with unit tests, C++ modernization, and ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft brings C++ smarts to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions.
InfoWorld

JetBrains introduces Java to Kotlin converter for Visual Studio Code

Extension that converts individual Java files to Kotlin code aims to ease the transition to Kotlin for Java developers.
IEEE

Self-Training Large Language Models for Improved Visual Program Synthesis With Visual Reinforcement

Abstract: Visual program synthesis is a promising approach to ex-ploit the reasoning abilities of large language models for compositional computer vision tasks. Previous work has used few-shot ...