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

It's more than just a code editor.

Markdown is emerging in VS Code and Visual Studio 2026 as a version-controlled instruction layer that governs AI agents, reusable prompts and modular skills alongside traditional documentation.

Four serious new vulnerabilities affect Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Cursor and Windsurf extensions, three of which remain ...

Three of the four vulnerabilities remained unpatched months after OX Security reported them to the maintainers.

Visual Studio Code 1.109 has been released, primarily bringing new features for handling AI agents. Developers can now follow the response generation of Anthropic Claude models in real-time in the ...

VS Code snippets and keybinding-based editor.action.insertSnippet commands can replicate the core behavior of unmaintained extensions such as htmltagwrap. Different approaches -- custom extensions, ...

Modern IDEs are evolving into AI-powered hubs for coding, content, and productivity. Get your scorecards out, we have yet another update in the ever expanding world of code editors. The barrier to ...

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 ...

The DaisyUI Snippet extension for Visual Studio Code provides a collection of handy snippets for working with DaisyUI, a set of components and utilities for Tailwind CSS. With this extension, you can ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

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 ...