A smaller weekly VS Code release adds chat workflow refinements, semantic search changes, TypeScript 6.0, and new admin controls.

The latest release of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor features more audio cues, customizable Activity Bar positioning, and coding improvements to the Python extension. VS Code 1.84, also known ...

July 2024 version of the popular code editor also allows users to configure which browser to use for opening links and brings more control to extension updates. Microsoft has released Visual Studio ...

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 ...

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.

Everything you may have missed from the past week.

A quick hands-on proof of concept shows how Visual Studio's new custom-agent framework can be aimed at a real Blazor project, along with what else is new in the March update.

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 ...

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 ...