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File-based apps, extension members, nameof improvements, and user-defined compound assignment operators make life easier for C# programmers. You’ll need .NET 10.

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Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

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Armed with an AI-built version of my app that supports multiple documents/tabs, I set out to rebuild WinUIpad myself. Again.

MCP, short for Model Context Protocol, allows AI assistants like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT to directly connect with the apps and retrieve real-time information. This allows any AI ...