Visual Studio Pro is one of the most popular IDEs you can use, but subscriptions are expensive. If you want a cheaper ...

Marketplace that were collectively installed 1.5 million times, exfiltrate developer data to China-based servers.

A hands-on comparison shows how Cursor, Windsurf, and Visual Studio Code approach text-to-website generation differently once ...

This release helps developers get from idea to shipping code faster, limiting interruptions and endless context switching.

Microsoft has released the Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code to general availability, enabling teams to build, ...

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Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code version 1.107 (November 2025) to the general public. A major theme for this release is the enhancement of agents, introducing multi-agent orchestration and ...

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 ...

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Microsoft is fundamentally restructuring how it delivers its flagship development environment, abandoning its traditional multi-year release cycle for a faster, annual cadence. Under the new “Modern ...

Microsoft is focusing on long-term stability and more flexible developer tooling with its new “AI-native” Visual Studio 2026 IDE and .NET 10. These new releases are aimed at two main business goals: ...