At VSLive! Las Vegas, Mads Kristensen revealed Visual Studio 2027 as part of a broader shift toward AI-assisted development and a more continuous release cadence for Microsoft's flagship IDE.

The new Visual Studio March Update touts "Build Your Own Custom Agents" so I had to immediately try that out. I pointed the IDE's Copilot Chat at an existing Blazor project and had it generate a ...

bARGE is a Visual Studio Code extension that brings Azure Resource Graph querying capabilities with KQL directly to your development environment, similar to the Azure Portal's Resource Graph Explorer.

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 large-scale campaign is targeting developers on GitHub with fake Visual Studio Code (VS Code) security alerts posted in the Discussions section of various projects, to trick users into downloading ...

There's a lot of buzz around OpenClaw lately, so I had to check it out in my favorite editor, VS Code. Turns out this is a nascent space, not much being done with the new it agentic AI tool and the ...

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VS Code 1.112 agents can now read image files from disk. The image carousel can open generated or selected images in chat. My PoC used three leaderboard screenshots to summarize model trade-offs.

VS Code 1.112 shipped March 18 with expanded Copilot agent autonomy controls. A new Autopilot permission level lets Copilot CLI run tasks without user approval dialogs. MCP server sandboxing restricts ...

Running open-source AI locally in VS Code proved possible, but the path was more complicated than the polished model catalogs initially suggested. On a modest company laptop with 12 GB of RAM and no ...

Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP servers, and hooks. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.110, an ...