Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based ...

As implied, the move comes amid long-running concerns over telemetry and data privacy in Microsoft's development tooling. While VS Code itself is built on the open source Code - OSS base, the official ...

Visual Studio: Chat now supports using the Output Window as context. Developers can click to include build or debug logs in prompts, use #output, or right-click log lines and select "Explain with ...