"We're excited to bring these benefits to the entire Visual Studio family," said Microsoft's Rhea Patel in a Dec. 18 post. "With Copilot Free, you'll have AI-powered tools right at your fingertips -- ...

Visual Studio Code 1.100, the latest release of Microsoft’s code editor, has arrived with several upgrades to its AI chat and AI code editing capabilities.

A developer needs only to download Visual Studio's Java coding pack from Microsoft, and the installer takes care of the rest. Simply accept all the defaults and the VS Code for Java installer performs ...