Visual Studio Code 1.81, the latest release of Microsoft’s extensible open source code editor, introduces improvements in the diff editor and GitHub pull request creation. Partial profiles also ...

VS Code’s June 2025 update supercharges GitHub Copilot with new chat customization tools, smarter inline completions, and an ...

The Monaco project is open source, with most of its development now in the Visual Studio Code GitHub repositories.That doesn’t mean it has stopped being available as a stand-alone editor, with a ...

GitHub even made it ridiculously easy to fire up VS Code in the browser with this trick: From any repo or pull request, developers can simply press the period (.) key to bring up the browser-based VS ...

Microsoft released its first cross-platform code editor to great fanfare yesterday, but it’s not quite what it appears when you peek under the hood. Visual Studio Code is based on technology ...

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced the launch of Visual Studio Code, a lightweight cross-platform code editor for writing modern web and cloud applications that will run ...

Numerous new functions for the AI assistant, MCP support and accessibility features are among the updates in this release.

Microsoft has open-sourced its popular GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code, a key step towards a transparent, community ...

The transformation of Visual Studio Code into an AI-driven editor represents a pivotal moment in software development. With the seamless integration of GitHub Copilot , AI assistance has become an ...

Otherwise, Visual Studio Code will work in the context of an open folder or a Git repository, with the option of attaching its debugging tools to the console, so you can debug and test PowerShell ...