Latest VS Code release improves AI agent integration with backing for Model Context Protocol server prompts, resources, ...

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I ’ve been a Windows user for decades, and have used the OS series for most of my workloads, be it gaming, testing new ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio (VS) Code has been one of the most successful OSS projects in GitHub. Visual Studio Code combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their core ...

Microsoft announced during its Build 2025 keynote that it will open source GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, its lightweight, cross-platform code editor, while adding a plethora of new ...

In version 17.14 of Visual Studio 2022, the MSVC compiler generates code twenty percent faster than ... The new compiler and IDE function C++ Dynamic Debugging helps developers to debug optimized ...

GitHub Copilot agent mode in Visual Studio 2022 17.14 can create apps from scratch, refactor code across multiple files ... and AI-powered doc comment generation for C++ and C# functions.

Microsoft announced that Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code now have a collective 50 million monthly active users (MAUs). “I’m thrilled to share that we’ve hit an incredible milestone ...

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As usual, this advanced functionality appeared in Visual Studio Code first (see the April article, "VS Code v1.99 Is All About Copilot Chat AI, Including Agent Mode"). [Click on image for larger view.

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code has hit a new milestone with its April 2025 update, version 1.100, introducing a significant evolution in its AI-powered Chat capabilities and overall editor ...