Agent mode is now generally available with MCP support
Copilot agent mode is the next evolution in AI-assisted development—and it’s now generally available in the Visual Studio June update. Agent mode turns GitHub Copilot into an autonomous pair programmer capable of handling multi-step development tas...
Strengthening the Future of Open Source: Why Sponsorship Matters
Strengthening the Future of Open Source: Why Sponsorship Matters From enterprise applications to developer tools, open source software powers innovation, accelerates time-to-market, and enables collaboration across industries and geographies. At the Ec...
Why You Should Submit a Talk to the Adoptium Summit 2025
Why You Should Submit a Talk to the Adoptium Summit 2025 We’re looking to hear from both project developers and contributors eager to share their journey and evolution, and from project users who can speak to how they’re applying these tools in rea...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #285
Hashtag Jakarta EE #285 Welcome to issue number two hundred and eighty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We’re finally there! The release review for the Jakarta EE 11 Platform specification is ongoing. All the members of the Jakarta EE Specification Commi...
SDV Community Days at IAV: Ready to Score Big
SDV Community Days at IAV: Ready to Score Big This year’s second SDV Community Days were held on 4-5 June at IAV’s offices in Gifhorn, Germany, providing a live stream for remote participants during the conference session. The event brought togethe...
Improving ECA Renewals with Automated Notifications
Improving ECA Renewals with Automated Notifications To make it easier for our community to maintain an active contributor status, we’re introducing a new notification service for the Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA). Starting June 11, 2025, we wil...
Next edit suggestions available in Visual Studio
GitHub Copilot code completions, or gray text, are specialized in autocompleting unfinished code or providing helpful template code. In reality, coding activities are more diverse than writing new code. What if Copilot could better assist your coding n...
Next edit suggestions available in Visual Studio GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot code completions, or gray text, are specialized in autocompleting unfinished code or providing helpful template code. In reality, coding activities are more diverse than writing new code. What if Copilot could better assist your coding n...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #284
Hashtag Jakarta EE #284 Welcome to issue number two hundred and eighty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am now on my way home from Tokyo and JJUG CCC 2025 Spring. You can read about that trip in my post from yesterday. Time to start celebrating! All the ...
JJUG CCC 2025 Spring
JJUG CCC 2025 Spring I’m back in Tokyo again. This time for JJUG CCC 2025 Spring. This Cross Community Conference (CCC) is organised in twice a year and attracts around 1000 attendees every time. I was a speaker at the Fall edition last November, and...
How to filter C++ Build Insights by project
Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14 comes with quality-of-life improvements to its C++ Build Insights integration that will make it easier for you to navigate large multi-project traces and handle long file names for your build inputs and artifacts. What ...
Extension Manager updates in Visual Studio
The latest updates in Visual Studio 2022 introduced features specifically designed to improve how you manage extensions. These updates offer tools that help you automate processes, provide detailed controls for configuration, and enhance the user inter...
