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 ...

VS Code's AI Toolkit and Microsoft Foundry can speed up agent development, but real-world success often depends on picking the right runtime and region, keeping tool-driven context under control, and ...

VS Code 1.118 adds remote Copilot control, enterprise AI restrictions, and smarter caching while improving developer ...

Microsoft has rolled back a Visual Studio Code change that automatically attributed GitHub commits to Copilot, even when AI was not used. The reversal in version 1.119 follows strong developer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. is a senior ...

In this article, we’ll cover what GitHub Copilot is, why it matters, and how you can use it to generate and optimize code inside Visual Studio. We’ll also examine how GitHub Copilot can fix issues in ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...