Programming — Visual Studio — February 5th, 2025

Build a Stateless Microservice With GitHub Copilot in VSCode
In this guide, we will build a stateless Flask Microservice using GitHub Copilot, with its benefits, speed, and where to be cautious when using it.
February 5th, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — January 20th, 2025

Using GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code -- Free AI Coding Assistant
Coding can be both exhilarating and exhausting. One moment, you're deep in the flow, solving complex problems, and the next, you're bogged down by repetitive tasks or hunting for snippets across multiple files. Sound familiar? If you've ever wished for an AI tool that could take some of that weight off your shoulders, you're not alone. Developers everywhere face the constant challenge of balancing creativity with the mundane aspects of coding.
January 20th, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — January 17th, 2025

IDE Irony: Coding Errors Cause 'Critical' Vulnerability in Visual Studio
Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday of 2025 is larger than normal, with the company addressing 159 vulnerabilities, including eight zero-day flaws, three of which have been actively exploited in the wild.
January 17th, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — January 9th, 2025

VS Code Python Devs Get 'Full' Language Server Mode for Pylance
Serving tens of millions of developers, Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code shipped a new release with three major new features, including a "full" language server mode for Pylance, which provides language-specific "smarts," including IntelliSense.
January 9th, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — January 8th, 2025

Bluetti has two new flagship energy storage kits for the home and beyond
The Apex 300 is a portable DIY solution, while the EnergyPro 6K requires professional installation.
January 8th, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — January 7th, 2025

GitHub Copilot Free AI Coding Assistant for VS Code
GitHub Copilot, an advanced AI-powered coding assistant, is now available for free in Visual Studio Code (VS Code). This development represents a significant milestone in the rapidly evolving AI coding landscape, offering developers a robust set of tools for tasks such as code generation, bug detection, and multi-file editing. While the free tier introduces a range of practical features, it also raises important questions about its usability, performance, and the broader implications for developer skill development.
January 7th, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — December 10th, 2024

Chinese hackers use Visual Studio Code tunnels for remote access
Chinese hackers targeting large IT service providers in Southern Europe were seen abusing Visual Studio Code (VSCode) tunnels to maintain persistent remote access to compromised systems.
December 10th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — October 30th, 2024

Amazon Q Developer announces inline chat support for VS Code and JetBrains
Amazon Q Developer is Amazon's answer to Microsoft's GitHub Copilot. It can help developers with coding, testing, upgrading applications, diagnosing errors, performing security scans and fixes, and optimizing AWS resources. Amazon Q Developer offers inline code suggestions, vulnerability scanning, and chat in popular IDEs, including JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, and VS Code.
October 30th, 2024 — Source

AWS Lambda Introduces a Visual Studio Code-Based Editor with Advanced Features and AI Integration
AWS Lambda has launched a new code editing experience within its console, featuring an integration based on the Visual Studio Code Open Source (Code-OSS) editor.
October 30th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — October 8th, 2024

Visual Studio's Future: Live Help to 'AI-ify Your App'
Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen provided a peek into the IDE's AI future, explaining how while in live-coding it will identify opportunities for your own app to use AI to your advantage.
October 8th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — October 7th, 2024

Python AI Updates Highlight New VS Code Release
Millions of Python developers using Visual Studio Code find updated data science functionality in the new release of version 1.94, the September 2024 edition of Microsoft's open-source-based editor.
October 7th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — September 6th, 2024

Visual Studio Code 1.93 rolls out with major AI and productivity updates
Microsoft has started rolling out the August 2024 update of Visual Studio Code, its powerful cross-platform text editor. This is version 1.93, and it's available right now with eight key improvements: IntelliSense, GitHub Copilot, and more.
September 6th, 2024 — Source

Visual Studio Code 1.93.0
A free source code editor for Windows, Linux and macOS. It includes support for debugging, Git control, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, and code refactoring.
September 6th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — August 2nd, 2024

CodeQwen free open source AI coding assistant
If you are looking for an open source AI coding assistant that is not only free but also integrates seamlessly with Visual Studio Code you might be interested in CodeQwen. An open-source AI code generator that has quickly gained popularity among developers for its powerful features and ease of use. With version 1.5 available on the Ollama platform, known for its coding model leaderboards, CodeQwen has proven its effectiveness and reliability in generating high-quality code snippets.
August 2nd, 2024 — Source

Semantic Kernel AI SDK Gets Autonomous Agents (Experimental)
As AI matures, agents are one of the most significant areas of development, and Microsoft's Semantic Kernel AI dev tooling is getting them as an experiment for now.
August 2nd, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — July 6th, 2024

.NET 9 MAUI Preview 5: New Blazor Project Template, Android 15 Beta 2 Support
Microsoft released .NET 9 Preview 5 on June 11th 2024. This update brings a .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid and Web App project template, Android API 35 Beta 2 support, and some performance and app size optimizations on the Android platform.
July 6th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — July 4th, 2024

Visual Studio Code previews incoming/outgoing changes graph
Experimental feature provides a graph view of the current branch, the current branch's upstream branch, and an optional base branch.
July 4th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — June 9th, 2024

Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered
A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to "infect" over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy of the popular 'Dracula Official theme to include risky code. Further research into the VSCode Marketplace found thousands of extensions with millions of installs.
June 9th, 2024 — Source

VisualStudio.Extensibility 17.10: Diagnostics Explorer, XAML Support and More
The VisualStudio.Extensibility team has released several updates, including the new Diagnostics Explorer for debugging extensions and support for XAML resources. The update also includes file and directory picker prompts and the TrackUpdatesAsync() method, enabling more efficient tracking and management of project changes.
June 9th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — June 8th, 2024

Microsoft will soon update Visual Studio via Windows Update
Did you know that Windows Update is used not only to annoy you deliver regular system updates but also new versions for other Microsoft products, such as Office? Soon, the list of Microsoft apps that can get to newer versions via Windows Update will expand with a new entry: Visual Studio.
June 8th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — May 30th, 2024

Microsoft Axing VBScript in Favor of JavaScript/PowerShell: Here's the Timeline
Microsoft is deprecating VBScript in favor of "more advanced" alternatives like JavaScript and PowerShell.
May 30th, 2024 — Source

OpenSilver 2.2 Migrates LightSwitch Applications
The latest version of OpenSilver 2.2, a remake of Microsoft's retired Silverlight web application framework, includes support for migrating applications created with Visual Studio LightSwitch that targeted Silverlight.
May 30th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — May 25th, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 17.11 Preview 1: Pull Requests, Debugging, Profiler and More Improvements
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 17.11 Preview 1. This release contains features regarding pull requests, default shortcuts, debugging and the Visual Studio profiler. Additionally, the new release introduces enhancements for *.vsconfig files.
May 25th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — May 17th, 2024

.NET 7 Support Just Ended, Here's How to Upgrade to .NET 8
Microsoft this week shipped one last minor update for .NET 7, which is no longer supported as of May 14.
May 17th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — May 8th, 2024

Visual Studio versus Visual Studio Code: How to choose
Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here's how to decide.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — May 3rd, 2024

What's New for Copilot AI in Visual Studio Code Update
The latest update to Visual Studio Code includes a number of new features and improvements for GitHub Copilot AI.
May 3rd, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — April 17th, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 Getting VS Code 'Command Palette' Equivalent
As any Visual Studio Code user knows, the editor's command palette is a powerful tool for getting things done quickly, without having to navigate through menus and dialogs. Now, we learn how an equivalent is coming for Microsoft's flagship Visual Studio IDE, invoked by the same familiar Ctrl+Shift+P keyboard shortcut.
April 17th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — April 11th, 2024

Microsoft Unifying Copilot Tools in Visual Studio 2022
Next month developers will no longer need to install two different extensions to use GitHub Copilot and GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio 2022, as Microsoft is combining the two tools into a single package.
April 11th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — March 27th, 2024

11 VS Code extensions you didn't know you needed
These surprising Visual Studio Code extensions aren't just for writing and editing code—though they'll also help you do that.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — March 20th, 2024

10 neat tricks for Visual Studio Code
From simple shortcuts to expert-level configuration changes, here are 10 ways to get the most from Microsoft's open source programming editor.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — March 18th, 2024

12 Visual Studio Code Extensions to improve your productivity and development workflow in 2024
Developers will know that having the right tools at your disposal can make a significant difference in your productivity and efficiency. Visual Studio Code, a popular code editor, offers a wide range of extensions that enhance its functionality and streamline your development workflow. In this article, we'll explore 12 must-have Visual Studio Code extensions that can boost your productivity in 2024.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Workarounds Listed for Upcoming Visual Studio App Center Retirement
The company will retire Visual Studio App Center in a year, listing several workarounds to replace the package of integrated developer services for building, testing, releasing and monitoring mobile/desktop apps that itself replaced a tool called HockeyApp in 2019.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — March 15th, 2024

Microsoft discontinues Visual Studio App Center
Microsoft is pulling the plug on Visual Studio App Center. The company has published a retirement notification on the Microsoft Learn website detailing the upcoming discontinuation of the service on March 31, 2025. App Center will remain supported for one more year, so expect it to receive critical bug fixes and technical support. However, Microsoft will block user sign-in and API calls after the specified date.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — March 11th, 2024

Quick Tip: Use Threads to Improve Chat with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022
Microsoft published new documentation for Visual Studio 2022's GitHub Copilot Chat tool, explaining how to use "threads" to improve the experience with the AI-powered coding assistant.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — March 8th, 2024

JetBrains IDEs Finally Get GitHub Copilot Chat
GitHub Copilot Chat is now available in JetBrains IDEs after having reached general availability in Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code editor last December.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Visual Studio Programming — Resources — Numbers

10+ powerful debugging tricks with Visual Studio
Debugging is a major part of the development lifecycle. Sometimes challenging, sometimes puzzling, sometimes annoying, one for sure — it is unavoidable for any not-so-trivial program. the progress of debugging tools over the last years has made many debugging tasks much easier and less time-consuming.
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Visual Studio Programming — Resources — E

Elastic tabstops — a better way to indent and align code
Since the days of the character mapped display, programmers have argued over whether tabs or spaces should be used to line up text. While both strategies can be used if all of a project's programmers can agree on how many spaces wide a tab should be, experience has taught us that this is not always the case. Even if all of the programmers working on a project are diligent enough to stick to only using tabs or spaces and have tabs set to the agreed number of spaces, there is still a problem if any programmers wish to use modern proportional fonts (because a space is no longer the same width as every other character).
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Everything you want to know about Visual Studio ALM and Farming
Today at TechEd, I announced Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 and many of the Application Lifecycle Management features that they include. Today, we enabled some of those features on Team Foundation Service for you to try out immediately and I announced that a preview of VS 2013 and TFS 2013 will be available at the Build conference later this month.
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Extensions by Mads Kristensen
In this episode, Robert is joined by Mads Kristensen, author of many of the most useful and cool Visual Studio extensions around. Mads shows the following extensions:
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Visual Studio Programming — Resources — H

Hello Code, VS Code 0.9.1 that is...
With the recent VS Code update, VS Code v0.9.1 (October 2015), I'm going to make it a VS Code Theme week.
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Visual Studio Programming — Resources — K

Know your Node.js (and VS Code)
Continuing with our VS Code Theme, today I've got three items for you (well, one, okay, kind of three, or whatever... )
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Visual Studio Programming — Resources — M

Manipulate URIs with Visual Studio .NET's System.URI class
Irina Medvinskaya explains how you use Visual Studio .NET's System.URI class to work with Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). this class allows you to represent and easily manipulate a given URI.
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Visual Studio Programming — Resources — O

One of Microsoft's Best-Kept Secrets — Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS)
I've talked some about the sweet support for node and PHP in Azure. you can also File | new | Node.js express application in WebMatrix, or run WordPress and get intellisense as well.
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Visual Studio Programming — Resources — T

There's an Arduino in your VS Code...
The final post for the VS Code Theme week comes from the man, the myth, the legend in his own mind :) Fabien Royer.
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Visual Studio Programming — Resources — U

Using Java Build Script Tasks in Visual Studio Code
The shortcoming with Tasks was that you could only define one, which is (in my humble opinion) by design to help developers by forcing them to create a build script rather than setting up tasks, as a build script is not coupled to the IDE and can be used elsewhere.
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Visual Studio Programming — Resources — V

Visual Studio Live Share
Real-time collaborative development — Source