You can use installation configuration files to configure what Visual Studio installs. To do so, export the workloads, components, and Marketplace extension ...

Microsoft has just released the April update for Visual Studio 2026 with a focus on cloud agent integration. Cloud agents run on remote infrastructure, enabling scalable, isolated execution, and now ...

The ongoing GlassWorm campaign has deployed a fresh wave of malicious Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions, many of which seem initially benign but later deploy self-replicating malware that can poison ...

Visual Studio has never really been the lightweight option. It's not the tool you open just to tweak a config file or write a quick script. It is the big Windows development environment, the one built ...

TL;DR: Visual Studio Professional 2026 is $42.97 (reg. $499.99) here for a single-user lifetime license on one supported Windows machine. Some products need a long explanation. Microsoft's Visual ...

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that are advertised as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistants, but also harbor ...

Microsoft has quietly added a cloud-hosted secure tunnel to Visual Studio and VS Code, making it easier to test APIs, web services, and mobile back ends. Visual Studio 2022 17.9 Preview 3 allows users ...

I have been playing around with Google Antigravity (*) recently. Actually, Google Antigravity is built on top of VS Code. Therefore, you can import and carry over your extensions. There is an "Import ...

A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...

A new pair of malicious Visual Studio Code extensions capable of harvesting screenshots, browser sessions and stored credentials has been discovered by cybersecurity researchers. The extensions, ...