Microsoft is updating how you build Visual Studio extensions, with new APIs and the ability to run extensions outside of the Visual Studio process. Notwithstanding the immense popularity of the Visual ...

With the VS Code extension generator and JavaScript, it’s easy to roll your own extension. Here’s how to get started In the space of only a couple of years, Visual Studio Code went from a curiosity to ...

This post explains how to use Copilot in Visual Studio using extension. GitHub Copilot, an AI coding assistant that offers autocomplete-style suggestions to help you code faster, is now available for ...

Visual Studio extension expert Mads Kristensen's latest creation is Rainbow Braces, used to colorize brace pairs in order to better understand nested code. A principal program manager on Microsoft's ...

Microsoft announced the first generally available release of the C++ extension for Visual Studio Code, graduating to version 1.0. Hitting that milestone was a long time in coming, as the tool in the ...

Microsoft has released a new GitHub Copilot extension in public preview designed to help enterprise .NET developers modernize and migrate legacy applications to Azure. Integrated with Visual Studio ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code) team has reached a key milestone in its vision to transform VS Code into an open‑source AI editor. On 30 June 2025, the team announced that the GitHub Copilot ...