The April update suppresses Copilot completions while IntelliSense is active, addressing a long-running editor conflict.

Now shipping in the VS Code Insiders build, Microsoft's new Visual Studio Code Agents preview offers an early look at a separate companion app for agent sessions, approvals, workspace discovery, and ...

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A month-long comparison of leading AI-assisted coding tools found Visual Studio Code still excels in tasks requiring manual precision, stability, and speed. While newer AI-driven platforms like Claude ...

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA. There was a time when your choices for Java IDEs were ...

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 ...

Visual Studio 2026 18.5 arrives with two headline changes – a smarter code suggestion system and an AI-powered debugger. Yet ...

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Cleaner code with AI assist.

Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET. Microsoft’s Visual Studio is its primary development ...

Visual Studio has never really been the lightweight option. It's not the tool you open just to tweak a config file or write a ...