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

If you want to setup and use Deepseek-R1 in Visual Studio Code, follow the steps mentioned in this tutorial.

Microsoft has released the March 2025 (version 1.99) update for Visual Studio Code. It introduces lots of new features including accessibility improvements.

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But before we do that, we need to install the Python Extension in VS Code. To do so, open Visual Studio Code and click on the Extensions icon.

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 ...