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 ...

Popular artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) forks such as Cursor, Windsurf, Google Antigravity, and Trae have been found to recommend extensions that are ...

VS Code has become the top choice for web developers. It’s been around only 8 years but has grown a lot. This is thanks to its huge library of extensions and how it boosts productivity. VS Code’s ...

On October 17, 2025, Cybersecurity researchers identified a self-spreading worm named GlassWorm infecting Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions available on the Open VSX Registry and Microsoft ...

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a loophole in Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Marketplace that enables attackers to reuse deleted extension names, potentially allowing malware to ...

A new study of integrated development environments (IDEs) like Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, and Cursor has revealed weaknesses in how they handle the extension ...

When the app is closed, I want it to periodically check for app and extension updates and install them. This is as opposed to waiting until I open the app before checking. At the momement, opening the ...

GitHub today announced GitHub Copilot Free, a free new tier of GitHub Copilot that integrates directly with Visual Studio Code. “Now automatically integrated into VS Code, all of you have access to ...

Visual Studio Code 1.96, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular code editor, has arrived with an overtype mode and a “paste with imports” feature for JavaScript and TypeScript. Also known as the ...

Microsoft announced March 2024 updates to its Python and Java extensions for Visual Studio Code, the open source-based, cross-platform code editor that has repeatedly been named the No. 1 tool in ...

Microsoft's dev team put AI to work to explain different kinds of expressions in the latest update to Java tooling for Visual Studio Code. Microsoft stewards the development of Java tooling for its ...