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

VS Code update brings info on running subagents into the Agents window and previews built-in dictation and a Markdown editor ...

Spread the loveFor decades, Adobe Dreamweaver was the go-to tool for web developers, a ubiquitous presence in design studios ...

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, ...

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has rapidly become one of the most popular code editors among developers worldwide. Its flexibility, ease of use, and robust features make it a go-to choice for everything ...

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 ...

To install the extension, we recommend installing directly from the Visual Studio Code or OpenVSX marketplaces. Open the Extensions view, search for cloudsmith to filter results and select the ...

Visual Studio Code is moving to weekly releases. Microsoft will replace the long-standing monthly update cycle with smaller weekly updates, starting with version 1.111, to deliver features more ...

With the release of Visual Studio Code 1.111 last night, Microsoft has moved its lightweight code editor to a weekly update schedule. “Welcome to the 1.111 release of Visual Studio Code, the first of ...

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 ...

Anthropic’s powerful AI assistant, Claude, now offers deep integration into VS Code. This move of Anthropic brings Claude’s advanced reasoning and code generation capabilities directly into the most ...

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 ...