Microsoft's June 2026 VS Code update turns on Autopilot by default and adds background sending for agent sessions.

Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.123 on June 3, adding agent-focused features, larger model context support, integrated browser updates and a new delay for some automatic extension updates.

What if your favorite coding tool just got smarter, faster, and more intuitive? That’s exactly what the latest update to Visual Studio Code (VS Code) promises. With a bold focus on AI integration, ...

Microsoft code editor Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is just five years old but the developer tool has gained impressive adoption with the world's developer population. VS Code today has 14 million ...

Folks who use Visual Studio Code, Microsoft's free cross-platform IDE announced back in 2015, should start seeing a new set of icons for both Insider and Stable builds. As those who've used the IDE ...

UPDATE: After the story was published, a Microsoft spokesperson told BleepingComputer that the announcement was mistakenly published and Visual Studio Code for the Web hasn't yet reached public ...

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA. There was a time when your choices for Java IDEs were ...

Gitpod has announced that it is offering a browser-based integrated development environment (IDE) via OpenVSCode Server, which is an open source implementation of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. One ...

Note that GitHub Copilot isn’t optimized for R; the documentation says Copilot works “especially well” for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, C#, and C++. However, Copilot does make R code ...