There are quite a few popular options for a good IDE, with Visual Studio Code — more commonly known as VS Code — being a ...

Microsoft has released the first version of Visual Studio 2026, introducing a major overhaul of its flagship IDE centered on AI, speed, and a modern user interface. Available through a new “Insiders ...

Discover VSCodium, the community-driven, open-source version of VS Code that prioritizes privacy and freedom. Enjoy the same powerful features and extensions without Microsoft's telemetry and branding ...

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 ...

GitHub Copilot for Azure is now available in Public Preview inside Visual Studio 2022 (version 17.14 or later). The new extension integrates directly with the Azure MCP server, letting developers ...

The Python team at Microsoft is continuing its overhaul of environment management in Visual Studio Code, with the August 2025 release advancing the controlled rollout of the new Python Environments ...

Microsoft has released a new GitHub Copilot extension in public preview designed to help enterprise .NET developers modernize and migrate legacy applications to Azure. Integrated with Visual Studio ...

A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code. Amazon Q is a free extension that uses generative AI to ...

A new study of integrated development environments (IDEs) like Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, and Cursor has revealed weaknesses in how they handle the extension ...

Microsoft activated stricter license enforcement for its popular C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code earlier this month, a move that now prevents the add-on from working in unofficial VS Code ...