The July 8, 2026, Visual Studio Code update expands agent workflows, chat attachments, browser-tab controls, OS-level shortcuts and enterprise telemetry management.

Visual Studio Code 1.128 is out now. It's the latest weekly release and this time brings a handful of new features.

In this Q&A, developer and VSLive! speaker Esteban Garcia explains how GitHub Copilot can accelerate the full software development lifecycle -- from architecture and code to tests, CI/CD, and Azure ...

VS Code 1.127 enhances agent session management, introduces per-site browser permissions, and makes browser tools for agents ...

A massive supply chain attack infected over 5,500 GitHub repositories to steal user secrets, including CI secrets, cloud credentials, SSH keys, OIDC tokens, and source code secrets, and upload them to ...

GitHub, the world’s largest code hosting platform used by over 100 million developers, has confirmed a data breach, and the attackers are selling the stolen data online. The company first acknowledged ...

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Microsoft has announced that it has open sourced XAML Studio, a developer tool that can be used to quickly prototype UWP XAML before adding code to Visual Studio. It provides a number of tools and ...

One of the many ways AI is transforming the world is through intelligent code completion and translating natural language to code. In this domain, OpenAI has been at the forefront with its GPT-3 ...

Microsoft has declared general availability for MCP (model context protocol) servers in Visual Studio, likely to be the second most popular IDE after Visual Studio Code and with wide enterprise use.

A Visual Studio Code extension for students who code the BBC micro:bit with Python. It supports micro:bit V1 and V2 and also the 4tronix Bit:Bot XL robot. The extension makes it easy to flash your ...

Microsoft has released version 1.100 – of its free source code editor Visual Studio Code, also known as April 2025 – after the development month. The release brings new features for GitHub Copilot ...