Across the April 8 and April 15, 2026 releases, Visual Studio Code expanded its agent-focused tooling with a new companion app, better terminal interaction, session debugging and more built-in Copilot ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code version 1.116, introducing a set of AI-focused improvements that refine developer ...

Visual Studio 2026 18.5 arrives with two headline changes – a smarter code suggestion system and an AI-powered debugger. Yet ...

For the last few years, Visual Studio Code has delivered new major updates each month. Now, those updates will arrive once a week, and the first weekly update has some helpful changes to AI agents.

Microsoft's latest Visual Studio Code update adds custom instructions and reusable prompts for the Chat feature. The April 2025 release also includes better multi-window support. Microsoft has ...

New Profiler Agent uses Copilot to analyze CPU, memory, and .NET allocations and suggest fixes. Copilot App Modernization Agent helps upgrade legacy .NET projects and migrate them to Azure. Markdown ...

With Visual Studio Code 1.99, GitHub Copilot agent mode is included in VS Code Stable and Next Edit Suggestions is generally available. Visual Studio Code 1.99, the latest release of Microsoft’s ...

With Visual Studio 2022 17.10 Preview 3, GitHub Copilot and GitHub Copilot Chat are combined into a single package for AI-powered code completions and explanations. With the third preview of the ...

What if the tools you’ve relied on for years suddenly became something entirely different? That’s the reality developers are waking up to as Visual Studio Code, once heralded as a lightweight and ...

While opening VS Code, if you see a message saying Updates are disabled because you are running the user-scope installation of Visual Studio Code as Administrator, here is how you get rid of it. There ...