The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

A large-scale campaign is targeting developers on GitHub with fake Visual Studio Code (VS Code) security alerts posted in the ...

Just-released Version 1.113 of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor emphasizes improvements ranging from chat customizations ...

VS Code 1.113 adds new themes, AI reasoning controls, and nested subagents, improving workflows and customization for ...

Microsoft updated Visual Studio Code with fresh default themes, adjustable AI reasoning levels, and nested subagents to help ...

Agents, browser debugging, and deprecation of Edit Mode are all highlighted in the latest versions of the popular code editor ...

Visual Studio Code 1.112, released March 18, expands Copilot agent autonomy, adds MCP server sandboxing on macOS and Linux, enables in-editor web app debugging, and broadens monorepo support for agent ...

VS Code 1.112 adds native image support for agents, and I used it on three Microsoft AI Foundry leaderboard screenshots to see whether it could turn chart-heavy visuals into a useful developer summary ...

You also get to escape Microsoft telemetry tracking too.

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Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...

A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...