Across the April 8 and April 15, 2026 releases, Visual Studio Code expanded its agent-focused tooling with a new companion app, better terminal interaction, session debugging and more built-in Copilot ...

Visual Studio 2026 18.5 arrives with two headline changes – a smarter code suggestion system and an AI-powered debugger. Yet ...

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.

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 ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code version 1.116, introducing a set of AI-focused improvements that refine developer ...

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 ...

AI Toolkit for VS Code v0.30.0 adds a new Tool Catalog for discovering, configuring, and managing agent tools, including local stdio MCP servers and tools from the public Foundry catalog. A new Agent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered if your go-to tools might be holding you back? For millions of developers, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is the undisputed champion of code editors, celebrated for its ...