Developers can connect local, hosted and enterprise AI models to Visual Studio Agent Mode with new configuration options.

VS Code 1.115 introduced a preview Agents app in VS Code Insiders. VS Code 1.116 added persistent debug logs for current and past agent sessions. Both releases expanded how agents work with terminals, ...

Microsoft's latest Visual Studio Code release expands AI agent management with an experimental inbox, automated model comparisons, customizable chat windows and new security controls while setting a ...

VS Code forks are diverging rapidly, not just in features, but in how they structure AI-assisted development workflows. Cursor emphasizes speed and visual polish, Windsurf leans toward dynamic ...

Open source champion Eclipse Foundation is advancing the Open VSX Registry, a vendor-neutral, community-supported alternative to the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace. However, while Microsoft's ...

A developer returning to Visual Studio after almost a decade struggled with automatic completions, inline suggestions and popups. A Reddit discussion does not establish whether the main culprit was ...

October updates add deployment previews, Container Apps express support and environment cleanup, alongside stable extension APIs and a breaking Go API migration.

NativeAOT command handling and the MSBuild server are now enabled by default. Preview 7 adds new runtime-async, C#, Blazor, MAUI and library capabilities. The .NET 11 Preview 7 SDK is version 11.0.100 ...

Visual Studio Code Agents ships with VS Code Insiders, launches separately from the editor, and starts with its own sign-in, workspace selection, trust, and approval flow. In a real editorial ...

Microsoft explains how Hyperscale separates compute, logging and storage while retaining a single primary for writes and SQL Server transaction semantics.

Experiments with GitHub Copilot CLI found greater test awareness but no statistically significant change in agent behavior.