Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on your desktop and on the web and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS. It comes with ...

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 ...

As any Visual Studio Code user knows, the editor's command palette is a powerful tool for getting things done quickly, without having to navigate through menus and dialogs. Now, we learn how an ...

It's no surprise that one of the biggest developer surveys in the industry this year is all about advanced AI, but it might be surprising that all the new fancy AI-powered IDEs/editors haven't dented ...

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Visual Studio 2026 is no longer a preview or a promise, it is a shipping product that developers can install today. Microsoft is positioning this release as a generational reset for its flagship IDE, ...

This post explains how to use Copilot in Visual Studio using extension. GitHub Copilot, an AI coding assistant that offers autocomplete-style suggestions to help you code faster, is now available for ...

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GitHub Copilot is an AI chatbot that enables you to write code more efficiently. However, many users have reported that the GitHub Copilot does not work in Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code. This ...

Microsoft has decided to end Visual Studio Codespaces, the rebranded version of Visual Studio Online, and instead will merge it with GitHub's take on the same product. Visual Studio Codespaces ...

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 ...