Gotta go fast.

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

In a social media feedback thread started by Microsoft Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen, multiple developers unloaded on the IDE's facility with AI provided by GitHub Copilot and other tools.

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

Microsoft's February 2026 Foundry update includes broader platform changes, but the most immediate developer-facing news for VS Code users is an AI Toolkit refresh centered on tool discovery, agent ...

VS Code 1.100 adds support for instructions and prompt files for Copilot Chat and speeds up edits in agent mode and in Next Edit Suggestions. Visual Studio Code 1.100, the latest release of ...

The first preview of Visual Studio 2026, with deeper GitHub Copilot AI integration, is available through Microsoft’s new Insiders channel. Microsoft has released its first preview of the Visual Studio ...

Pixel Agents adds a pixel office view in VS Code; six character styles show coding, searching, or idle states, useful for ...

CodeRabbit has released a new integration that brings its AI-based code review system directly into Visual Studio Code, along with support for the Cursor and Windsurf IDEs. The extension allows ...

Visual Studio 2026 is a fully 64-bit IDE built to handle large, complex solutions without choking on performance. Whether you ...