PowerShell is now a lot more than a system management tool for Windows. The latest releases of PowerShell are built on the current cross-platform .NET and support macOS and Linux alongside the ...

By integrating GitHub Copilot directly into Visual Studio's diagnostic workflow, the new Copilot Diagnostics toolset promises ...

One of the most notable highlights of this update is the comprehensive integration of GPT-5 within Visual Studio. Developers can now directly leverage GPT-5's powerful code generation, code ...

Azure Agentic DevOps Microsoft is bringing agentic workflows and Azure-native capabilities directly into Visual Studio. A ...

In August 2025, Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) received a significant update aimed at providing developers with a more efficient development environment, allowing them to focus more on programming. This ...

Microsoft open sourced a Java debugger it developed for the lightweight, open source Visual Studio Code editor. About a month ago, the company released the VS Code extension to provide Java debugging, ...

In addition to unveiling Visual Studio Code 1.49, Microsoft on September 14 announced general availability of the 1.0 version of the C++ extension for Visual Studio Code, offering capabilities for ...

Version 1.0 of the new debugger for Python in Visual Studio Code (VS Code), called Debugpy, shows up in the latest update of the popular Python tooling for the open source, cross-platform code editor.

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 ...

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced that Live Share, its previously announced collaborative development feature for Visual Studio and Visual Studio code, is now available to ...