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

Microsoft's July release adds a Copilot Chat agent preview, workload-specific skills, shared instructions, branch context and C++ build controls.

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Open-source software tools continue to surge in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...

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Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.129, an update to its free, popular code editor that features a dedicated agent host and an editor panel in the Agents window. The updated editor also ...

This repo contains two hands-on exercises exploring how to build generative AI applications with the OpenAI SDK, the Responses API, and a model deployed in Microsoft Foundry. Both exercises use Entra ...

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 ...

Multi-chat Claude sessions allow VS Code users to run multiple related conversation threads in one Claude agent session instead of separate top-level sessions. Visual Studio Code 1.128, the most ...