Neowin News Feed for: Debugging

Visual Studio April update adds autonomous cloud agents and a new debugger agent

Paul Hill — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:18:01 +0000

Microsoft is making Visual Studio more agentic. New tools handle remote coding tasks and analyze live app behavior to find and fix bugs automatically. Read more...

Smart user unofficially fixes one of Windows' issues that wastes desktop space

Sayan Sen — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:10:01 +0000

Windows 11 has plenty of UI consistency issues that are still present even after two years of its release. One of them is related to wasted space by notifications which has been fixed by a user. Read more...

Microsoft releases new tool to detect memory leaks with Edge

Usama Jawad — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 07:16:01 +0000

Microsoft has published a new capability in Edge DevTools in Edge 97, enabling developers to detect and further investigate DOM leaks in their applications that can result in performance degradation. Read more...

You can now debug JavaScript in Visual Studio Code without any extension

Usama Jawad — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:26:01 +0000

Microsoft has introduced the capability of debugging JavaScript directly in Visual Studio Code. That said, a DevTools extension for Microsoft Edge can be installed to complement the experience. Read more...

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News Staff — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 16:40:49 +0000

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Microsoft unveils new, open source bug finding tool, Project OneFuzz

Hamza Jawad — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:34:01 +0000

Project OneFuzz is an extensible fuzz testing framework for Azure. The new tool has been made available on GitHub under an MIT license, and will continue to be maintained and expanded. Read more...

Microsoft bug-testing software brings breakthroughs in stem cell research

Andy Weir — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:21:26 +0000

Scientists have been rapidly expanding their understanding of stem cell behaviour since they began to use Microsoft software, originally designed to eliminate bugs in Windows, in their research. Read more...

GalCiv II: Debugging an AI

Brad Wardell — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:50:12 +0000

Stardock has released an article outlining some of the play-testing involved in debugging computer AI. Their upcoming strategy game, Galactic Civilizations II, is only weeks away from release. ... Read more...

Researchers seek simpler software debugging

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:15:32 +0000

Software bugs/errors are present in every piece of software. When you get a software error a lot of times it doesn't make any sense. So what's being done to make these software errors... Read more...