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Hands On with Microsoft's New VS Code Agents Preview -- Now in Insiders

Now shipping in the VS Code Insiders build, Microsoft's new Visual Studio Code Agents preview offers an early look at a separate companion app for agent sessions, approvals, workspace discovery, and ...

Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue

Visual Studio 2026 18.5 arrives with two headline changes – a smarter code suggestion system and an AI-powered debugger. Yet ...
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Hands On: Testing Cursor, Windsurf and VS Code on Text-to-Website Generation

All three editors successfully generated and extended a multi-page static website from identical natural-language prompts. Cursor emphasized production-oriented polish and executed large redesigns and ...
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Visual Studio Code adds overtype mode, paste with imports

Visual Studio Code 1.96, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular code editor, has arrived with an overtype mode and a “paste with imports” feature for JavaScript and TypeScript. Also known as the ...
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7 reasons VS Code is the best text editor, even if you're not a developer

You might think VS (Visual Studio) Code is just for programmers. After all, it looks like a complex tool filled with cryptic code and a developer-focused interface. But that couldn't be further from ...

Create simple UX for domain-specific languages with VS Code

Generic formats like JSON or XML are easier to version than forms. However, they were not originally intended to be ...
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12 Essential Visual Studio Code extensions to improve your dev workflow in 2024

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has become a go-to integrated development environment (IDE) for developers worldwide, thanks to its versatility, lightweight design, and extensive library of ...