Microsoft plans to issue on Tuesday a second beta release of its Visual Studio LightSwitch development tool that is intended to enable nonprogrammers to build Windows business applications via a ...

Microsoft announced two related updates for Visual Studio: support for bringing your own model (BYOM) to Copilot Chat and general availability of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) client in the IDE.

Along with a new default model, a new Consumptions panel in the IDE helps developers monitor their usage of the various models, paired with UI to help easily switch among models. GitHub Copilot in ...

One of the Holy Grails of application development has been to allow a businessperson to build his or her own application without needing a professional programmer. Over the years, numerous attempts at ...

Microsoft has had a checkered history in the “casual” development tool market. The company hit home runs with the original Access database and the original Visual Basic. But many of its other runners ...

In late summer of 2011, Microsoft released the first version of Visual Studio LightSwitch, offering its users a way to create high-quality business applications for the desktop and the cloud with ...