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 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

AI Coding Assistants Encroach on Copilot's Special GitHub Relationship

Microsoft had a great thing going when it had GitHub Copilot all to itself in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code thanks to its ownership of GitHub, but that's eroding. That relationship resulted in ...
InfoWorld

Getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio or VS Code

The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Devs Diss Visual Studio's AI

Developers in a social media thread repeatedly said GitHub Copilot feels more capable and reliable in Visual Studio Code than in full Visual Studio. Common Copilot-in-Visual-Studio complaints included ...
Neowin

JetBrains AI Assistant lands on Visual Studio Code as an extension

JetBrains's AI Assistant is no longer limited to its own IDEs. It is now available as an extension for VS Code. JetBrains has now made its AI Assistant available as an extension for Microsoft's ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code stabilizes agent mode

With Visual Studio Code 1.99, GitHub Copilot agent mode is included in VS Code Stable and Next Edit Suggestions is generally available. Visual Studio Code 1.99, the latest release of Microsoft’s ...
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Go Green with VS Code for Quicker AI Tools & Safer Model Control

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 ...