Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP ...

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

Visual Studio Code 1.61, introduced October 7, introduces the ability to open side-by-side editors for the same file. The new split editor functionality is enabled by a “Split in Group” command, which ...

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.

Microsoft is bringing GitHub Copilot’s most advanced Visual Studio integration to C++, allowing the AI assistant to tap into the compiler's understanding of whole C++ codebases. That deeper context ...