Competition has become intense in the market for AI coding services. Microsoft is working on an answer.

AWS has launched Kiro, a spec-driven, agentic AI IDE based on Visual Studio Code. It joins a growing lineup of VS Code forks ...

At its core, the Material Icon Theme replaces VS Code’s default file and folder icons with visually appealing, color icons that represent different file types and programming languages. For instance, ...

Microsoft has recently released an open‑source DocumentDB extension for Visual Studio Code alongside DocumentDB Local, a lightweight local emulator.

Microsoft announced during its Build 2025 keynote that it will open source GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code and add several new features.

Microsoft announced that Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code now have a collective 50 million monthly active users (MAUs).

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code 1.100 April 2025 release significantly enhances AI Chat with customizable instruction and prompt files, integrates GPT-4.1, and adds new tools, alongside editor UX ...

Install Python Libraries in Visual Studio Code Python libraries are pre-written collections of code designed to simplify programming by providing ready-made functions for specific tasks.

Following an April update, Microsoft's C/C++ extension for VS Code now checks the editor environment, preventing its use in unofficial builds like Cursor.

An extension for Visual Studio 2022 that adds various decorative text effects (drop shadow, outline, bloom) to code. Download from the Releases Once it's been tested, it may get published on the ...

An unknown threat actor is deploying a large-scale, sophisticated cryptojacking campaign through a series of malicious extensions in Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s lightweight source-code editor, ...