Markdown is emerging in VS Code and Visual Studio 2026 as a version-controlled instruction layer that governs AI agents, reusable prompts and modular skills alongside traditional documentation.

This head-to-head test compared Amazon Q Developer and GitHub Copilot Pro using a real-world editorial workflow to evaluate their performance as 'agentic' assistants beyond simple coding. Both tools ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that are advertised as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistants, but also harbor ...

The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...

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 ...

Microsoft has claimed that changing keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio 2026 is a "high-stakes juggling act", in which even telemetry isn't enough. Visual Studio is the integrated development ...

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 ...

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 and ...

What if your favorite coding tool just got smarter, faster, and more intuitive? That’s exactly what the latest update to Visual Studio Code (VS Code) promises. With a bold focus on AI integration, ...

Although Microsoft offers Visual Studio Code as a lightweight, but very powerful, open-source code editor to customers, its flagship development environment is actually vanilla Visual Studio. This is ...