Visual Studio Code can be transformed from a capable editor into a powerhouse development environment with the right extensions, settings, and workflows. From AI coding assistants to containerized dev ...

Microsoft has rolled back a controversial change in Visual Studio Code that automatically attributed GitHub commits to ...

A tool I’ve been using for a while, Roo Code, an extension for Visual Studio Code, recently made a decision that got me ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...

Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. is a senior ...

Although Microsoft offers Visual Studio Code as a lightweight, but very powerful, open-source code editor to customers, its flagship development environment is actually vanilla Visual Studio. This is ...

Microsoft has decided to open source its GitHub Copilot tool in Visual Studio Code. It has also shared some exciting developments. On the opening day of its BUILD 2025 conference, Microsoft has ...

The new way to get the most out of GitHub Copilot is from markdown prompting, the practice of writing detailed, reusable natural-language instructions in markdown files -- like README.md or ...