As a tech journalist who quickly latched onto agentic AI to improve my editorial processes, I've become a Markdown maven. Markdown, as every Visual Studio Magazine reader knows, was previously best ...

What if the tools you’ve relied on for years suddenly became something entirely different? That’s the reality developers are waking up to as Visual Studio Code, once heralded as a lightweight and ...

JetBrains's AI Assistant is no longer limited to its own IDEs. It is now available as an extension for VS Code. JetBrains has now made its AI Assistant available as an extension for Microsoft's ...

Microsoft has released a preview of Visual Studio 2026, the first major version update since 2021, promising deeper AI integration and a new look and feel.… Visual Studio is the second most popular ...

Microsoft has rolled out the latest update to its flagship integrated development environment, Visual Studio 2022 v17.13, introducing new AI-powered features, including GitHub Copilot Free. This ...

Across the April 8 and April 15, 2026 releases, Visual Studio Code expanded its agent-focused tooling with a new companion app, better terminal interaction, session debugging and more built-in Copilot ...

VS Code 1.105 also introduces a built-in MCP server marketplace and allows users to resume recent Copilot Chat sessions. Visual Studio Code 1.105, the latest release of Microsoft’s popular Visual ...

CodeRabbit has released a new integration that brings its AI-based code review system directly into Visual Studio Code, along with support for the Cursor and Windsurf IDEs. The extension allows ...

Powered by GitHub Copilot, Copilot Edits proposes code changes across multiple files in a workspace based on the user’s prompts. Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is previewing Copilot Edits, a feature ...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2026 Arrives With ‘AI Woven Into Workflow’ Your email has been sent First major visual studio upgrade in five years AI, performance, and ...

Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. is a senior ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...