Let’s cut right to the chase: yes, you absolutely can use Visual Studio Code for free. This isn’t some trial period, some limited ‘community edition’ that locks away essential features, or a ...

Ever felt that pang of frustration when your code, which looked perfectly logical on paper, just refuses to behave? You’re not alone. Every developer, from the seasoned pro to the absolute beginner, ...

Five free Marketplace extensions promise private, locally run coding assistance as developers look for alternatives to metered cloud AI.

Visual Studio Code 1.129 is now available with an experimental Modern UI, a redesigned editor panel for the Agents window, and support for running terminal commands through chat. Microsoft released ...

Bring Claude Code into Visual Studio 2026. The claude CLI does the agent work. This extension is the IDE half of Claude Code's integration protocol: a native diff window with accept and reject, ...

From VS Code to Azure's free tier, here are 50 Microsoft tools you can try for free right now, organized by category ahead of Build 2026 on June 2-3.

An extension for Visual Studio Code and compatible IDEs that provides autocompletion for Elastic Docs' Markdown, as well as other features for authoring Elastic Docs authoring. Use {icon} to insert ...

GitHub has confirmed that a recent breach into its internal repositories was caused by a vulnerability in a Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension called ‘Nx Console.’ The security team at ...

Microsoft has just released Visual Studio Code 1.111. This the first weekly release of VS Code. Microsoft decided to change the schedule so you get features faster. Microsoft has announced the ...

Pixel Agents integrates animated pixel art characters into Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to create a virtual workspace for managing AI-driven workflows. Demonstrated by Nate Herk , this extension ...

The Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available, allowing agents to be developed and managed directly from the editor. The extension enables software-style workflows for ...

The Copilot Studio extension lets developers use any VS Code-compatible AI assistant to develop AI agents, then sync with Copilot Studio for testing and iteration. Microsoft is offering a Microsoft ...