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.

Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions.

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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 ...

You start by getting the official installer from the Visual Studio Code website. Open your preferred browser on Windows. Go to the Visual Studio Code download page ...

A Visual Studio Code extension for managing Python comments. This extension helps you check and remove comments from Python files or directories, only using python build-in functions(AST and tokenize) ...

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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 ...