React JavaScript tutorial showing IntelliSense, debugging, and code navigation support in the Visual Studio Code editor.

In VS Code, MCP support enhances GitHub Copilot's agent mode by allowing you to connect any MCP-compatible server to your agentic coding workflow. This article guides you through setting up MCP servers and using tools with agent mode in Visual Studio Code.

TypeScript is great for writing client-side code as well as Node.js applications and you can debug client-side source code with the built-in Edge and Chrome debugger. We'll create a tiny web application to show client-side debugging in action.

In this tutorial, you learn about the key features of Visual Studio Code to help you get started with coding quickly. You learn about the different components of the user interface and how to customize it to your liking.

Customize VS Code with AI-powered functionality from extensions and Model Context Protocol servers to use in Chat. Or, build your own extension to power your team's unique scenarios.

Browser debugging in VS Code. Visual Studio Code includes a built-in debugger for Edge and Chrome. There are a couple ways to get started with it. Use the Open Link command to debug a URL. Clicking a link in the JavaScript debug terminal. Use a …

GitHub Copilot is your AI pair programmer tool in Visual Studio Code. Get code suggestions as you type or use Inline Chat in the editor to write code faster. Add new functionality or resolve bugs across your project with Copilot Edits, or use natural language in chat to explore your codebase.

With chat agent mode in Visual Studio Code, you can use natural language to define a high-level task and to start an agentic code editing session to accomplish that task. In agent mode, Copilot autonomously plans the work needed and determines the relevant files and context.

Learn how to configure debugging in Visual Studio Code with launch.json, including attributes, variable substitution, and compound configurations.

Visual Studio Code's JavaScript support can run in two different modes: File Scope - no jsconfig.json: In this mode, JavaScript files opened in Visual Studio Code are treated as independent units.