Microsoft is working on a new update mechanism for its flagship integrated development environment (IDE), Visual Studio. The company wants to start updating it via Windows Update. Did you know that ...

A five-year-old Visual Studio feature request for automatic IDE updates is finally getting enacted by Microsoft amid a lot of initial developer pushback, seemingly misplaced. It was June 7, 2019, when ...

Visual Studio Code 1.112 introduces in-editor web app debugging, Copilot Autopilot mode, and improved AI workflows for developers.

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 ...

You won't have to switch to a browser as often.

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 ...

Visual Studio Code 1.109 introduces enhancements for providing agents with more skills and context and managing multiple agent sessions in parallel. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.109, ...

Microsoft shifts Visual Studio Code to weekly releases, allowing faster AI feature updates and improvements to developer workflows.

Microsoft has released the March 2025 (version 1.99) update for Visual Studio Code. It introduces lots of new features including accessibility improvements. Some of the big updates in this update ...