IDEs

Better Control over Your Copilot Code Suggestions
Copilot code completions and suggestions in the editor speed you up in your daily programming and coding activities, at every keystroke. They help you finish the line you’re typing or anticipate your next edit, making your workflow smoother and faste...
2025-08-21 16:00
JCrete 2025
JCrete 2025 I tried to figure out how many editions of JCrete I have attended. Let’s just say that it’s been quite a few, and I enjoy is just as much every time I return. The community at JCrete is just incredible, the food is awesome. The only thi...
2025-08-21 11:57
Bring Your Own Model to Chat in Visual Studio
We’re excited to announce that you can now bring your own language model into Visual Studio Chat. You can connect API keys from providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google) to access a wider range of models. This makes it easy to test the latest release...
2025-08-20 15:40
Meet the Eclipse SDV Committers: Michael Engel from Eclipse BlueChi
Meet the Eclipse SDV Committers: Michael Engel from Eclipse BlueChi With a passion for open source and a drive to shape the future of automotive software, Michael Engel, Project Lead of Eclipse BlueChi, has become an active leader in the open source co...
2025-08-20 09:28
Unveiling the 2025 SDV Hackathon Challenges: From Ideas to Impact – Faster!
Unveiling the 2025 SDV Hackathon Challenges: From Ideas to Impact – Faster! Two cities, two challenges: ADAS feature prototyping and OTA updates Image The third edition of the Eclipse SDV Hackathon is just around the corner, and we’re excited to i...
2025-08-19 20:22
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is Now Generally Available in Visual Studio 🎉
We’re excited to announce that MCP support is now GA in Visual Studio—unlocking richer, real-time context from your entire development stack and expanding the power of Agent Mode like never before. Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard t...
2025-08-19 18:23
Hashtag Jakarta EE #294
Hashtag Jakarta EE #294 Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This is another short update due to the vacation period. After JCrete, I had a week of vacation where I was more or less totally off the grid. That also...
2025-08-17 09:59
A Celebration of Community and Growth: Eclipse Temurin Reaches 700 Million Downloads
A Celebration of Community and Growth: Eclipse Temurin Reaches 700 Million Downloads We are thrilled to announce that Eclipse Temurin has achieved a remarkable milestone: 700 million cumulative downloads! This incredible growth trajectory has seen us...
2025-08-14 12:56
Improving Codebase Awareness in Visual Studio Chat
Smarter Code Search in Visual Studio: From BM25 to Semantic Search  In our latest 17.14.11 release, we’ve made a significant leap forward in how we explore your code to retrieve meaningful context. Our new Remote Semantic Search integration helps yo...
2025-08-14 12:00
From Redmond to San Diego: VS Live! Highlights, Session Examples, and What’s Next
There’s something special about hosting developers at Microsoft HQ — and this year’s Visual Studio Live! Redmond reminded me why I love these events. The energy in every room was electric. From the moment the first session kicked off, developers ...
2025-08-14 00:36
GPT-5 Now Available in Visual Studio
We’re excited to share that GPT-5, OpenAI’s latest frontier model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio. GPT-5 offers faster responses and even better performance for writing and understanding code. This release brings a new level...
2025-08-12 17:10
Hashtag Jakarta EE #193
Hashtag Jakarta EE #193 Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Not much to update this time since I was attending JCrete last week and is on vacation this week. The Jakarta EE Platform project is having a summer br...
2025-08-10 09:59
Hashtag Jakarta EE #293
Hashtag Jakarta EE #293 Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Not much to update this time since I was attending JCrete last week and is on vacation this week. The Jakarta EE Platform project is having a summer br...
2025-08-10 09:59
TheiaCon 2025 CFP: Bring Your Deep Dives on Eclipse Theia, Theia IDE & Theia AI
TheiaCon 2025 CFP: Bring Your Deep Dives on Eclipse Theia, Theia IDE & Theia AI Closed, proprietary AI stacks are reshaping developer tools: often at the expense of transparency, portability, and control.Eclipse Theia takes a different route: a fully o...
2025-08-08 15:25
Be Part of the Future of Open Source Java: Register for the Adoptium Summit 2025
Be Part of the Future of Open Source Java: Register for the Adoptium Summit 2025 The Adoptium Summit, a free half-day virtual event happening on 1 October 2025, will bring together developers, users, and ecosystem stakeholders from around the world t...
2025-08-06 10:21
Visual Studio 2015 Retirement: Support reminder for older versions of Visual Studio
Support for Visual Studio 2015 will end on October 14, 2025. If you’re using an older version of Visual Studio, we want to keep you productive and secure when using Visual Studio, and strongly recommend you upgrade to Visual Studio 2022, which brings...
2025-08-05 16:16
Hashtag Jakarta EE #192
Hashtag Jakarta EE #192 Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We are winding down for summer break. The platform project has decided to skip the next three weekly calls. The next call will be on August 26. The plan ...
2025-08-03 09:59
Oniro's mid-year update
Oniro's mid-year update Where we stand: a snapshot of Oniro’s first half of 2025The first half of 2025 has been a period of foundational strengthening for the Oniro Working Group. We're not just building an operating system kit; we're crafting the t...
2025-08-01 10:11
Smarter AI Edits in Visual Studio Copilot
When we first set out to get smarter AI edits in Visual Studio Copilot, we knew we were tackling a deeply complex problem. It wasn’t just about generating great suggestions—it was about figuring out how to seamlessly apply those suggestions to your...
2025-07-31 12:00