Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP ...

The new release allows using experimental agent plug-ins and the new Agent Debug Panel offers detailed insights into chat ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code development environment will move from monthly updates to a weekly release schedule, beginning with version 1.111, according to the development team.

With the release of Visual Studio Code 1.111, Microsoft has moved its lightweight code editor to a weekly update schedule.

As a tech journalist who quickly latched onto agentic AI to improve my editorial processes, I've become a Markdown maven. Markdown, as every Visual Studio Magazine reader knows, was previously best ...

VS Code's AI Toolkit Agent Builder can wire an agent to external tools via MCP, even for non-coding editorial workflows. Early friction points included circular UX flows, model availability mismatches ...

It's more than just a code editor.

VS Code keeps adding new features as time goes on, and if you weren't careful, you likely missed things like sticky scroll, zen mode, and more.

AI tools like Claude are becoming embedded in engineers' day-to-day work, which means outages can send them back to an ...

GlassWorm campaign used 72 malicious Open VSX extensions and infected 151 GitHub repositories, enabling stealth supply-chain attacks on developers.

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

Threat actors are publishing clean extensions that later update to depend on hidden payload packages, bypassing marketplace ...