Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP ...
Visual Studio Code 1.110 (February 2026) adds new agent extensibility, browser-driving chat tools, and expanded chat accessibility.
It's more than just a code editor.
The new release allows using experimental agent plug-ins and the new Agent Debug Panel offers detailed insights into chat ...
Normally right now we'd be reporting on the May 2025 edition of Visual Studio Code, perhaps detailing the work to take GitHub Copilot Chat open source. However, Microsoft has extended the development ...
The text editor is the most critical tool in a programmer's arsenal, acting as the daily workbench, primary interface, and engine for creation. For years, Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has ...
Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions.
Microsoft has introduced Visual Studio Code for Education, a new computer science instruction platform that takes students beyond beginner coding and teaches them tools used by professional developers ...
AI-first editors and agent-driven tooling intensify competition in the IDE market The Open VSX registry, used for installing extensions in editors compatible with Visual Studio Code (VS Code), will ...
An unknown threat actor is deploying a large-scale, sophisticated cryptojacking campaign through a series of malicious extensions in Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s lightweight source-code editor, ...