Microsoft's dev team put AI to work to explain different kinds of expressions in the latest update to Java tooling for Visual Studio Code. Microsoft stewards the development of Java tooling for its ...

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code dev teams for Java and Python announced Gradle enhancements for the former and improved Python discovery for the latter. The company updates its associated extensions on ...

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 ...

GitHub has launched a new free plan for GitHub Copilot, which is now available to all users of Visual Studio Code. This plan provides 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month, accessible ...

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and offline models, but with some limits. Microsoft has been pushing hard to make ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.104. It comes with lots of new features, including intelligent AI switching. Microsoft has released the new August 2025 (version 1.104) update for Visual ...