Programming — Visual Studio — February 2nd, 2026

No-Hassle Visual Studio Code Theming: Building an Extension
Years ago, when I read Sarah Drasner's article on creating a VS Code theme, I silently thought to myself, That's a lot of work... I'm never going to make a theme...
February 2, 2026 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — January 5th, 2026

Devs Discuss Updating Backend Code from .NET 8 to .NET 10: 'Like a Breeze'
Developers discussing updating code from .NET 8 to .NET 10 on social media are generally positive about the move, noting few breaking changes and making comments like an upgrade going "like a breeze" and another saying: "It's worth it. That's it. That's the answer."
January 5, 2026 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — December 19th, 2025

C++ Joins C# in Visual Studio's Deep Copilot Tier
Microsoft is expanding GitHub Copilot's deepest Visual Studio integration to C++, giving the AI assistant compiler-backed insight into entire C++ codebases so it can refactor and modify projects across multiple files. The new C++ code editing tools are now in public preview in the latest Visual Studio 2026 Insiders release, putting C++ alongside C# as the only two languages in Visual Studio positioned for this kind of symbol-aware, multi-file Copilot editing.
December 19, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — December 15th, 2025

Microsoft explains how it handles feedback and bug reports for Visual Studio
Visual Studio Code is a fairly powerful code editor, but it is actually Visual Studio which is Microsoft's flagship integrated development environment (IDE). The tech giant recently released Visual Studio 2026, while also talking about how difficult it is to manage workflows while changing keyboard shortcuts in the software. Now, the firm has shed some light on how it manages feedback and bug reports related to Visual Studio.
December 15, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — December 12th, 2025

GitHub Updates Spark, Its AI Prompt-Based App Builder
GitHub detailed a set of updates to GitHub Spark, including changes aimed at enterprise readiness, cost management, agent behavior, and UI quality.
December 12, 2025 — Source

VS Code 1.107 (November 2025 Update) Expands Multi-Agent Orchestration, Model Management
The latest monthly update to Visual Studio Code, version 1.107 (the November 2025 release), continues Microsoft's focus on AI-assisted workflows with expanded multi-agent orchestration across local, background and cloud environments, along with new chat, model management, security, TypeScript and enterprise features.
December 12, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — December 11th, 2025

Visual Studio Code 1.107 launches with multi-agent orchestration and Agent HQ
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code version 1.107 (November 2025) to the general public. A major theme for this release is the enhancement of agents, introducing multi-agent orchestration and integration into the Chat view.
December 11, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — November 26th, 2025

Connect a Llama 3.1 Chat AI Model to VSCode and Code Faster with Local Replies
Have you ever wished your coding environment could think alongside you, offering solutions, generating code, or debugging issues without missing a beat? With the rise of AI-powered tools, this is no longer a futuristic dream but a practical reality. Enter Ollama, a innovative AI integration that works seamlessly within Visual Studio Code (VSCode). What sets Ollama apart is its ability to operate offline, giving developers the freedom to use advanced language models (LLMs) without being tethered to the internet. Whether you're tackling a tricky bug or brainstorming new ideas, this tool promises to transform the way you code by making your workflow smarter, faster, and more intuitive.
November 23, 2025 — Source

Visual Studio Code 1.106.3 released
Microsoft has released an update for Visual Studio Code 1.106.3, addressing several issues users had been experiencing in their development environment. The update includes a fix for VS Code's interaction with the MCP Registry, as well as resolutions to bugs related to ADMX files and a regression bug that caused the software to pause mid-sentence.
November 23, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — November 14th, 2025

Quiet UI Came and Went, Quiet as a Mouse
A few weeks ago, Quiet UI made the rounds when it was released as an open source user interface library, built with JavaScript web components. I had the opportunity to check out the documentation and it seemed like a solid library. I'm always super excited to see more options for web components out in the wild.
November 14, 2025 — Source

Visual Studio 2026 Integrates Azure MCP Server for Agentic Cloud Workflows
Microsoft announced that Azure MCP Server capabilities are now included out-of-the-box in Visual Studio 2026, which went GA this week and rewrote the usual long form of the acronym IDE, turning it into "Intelligent Developer Environment."
November 14, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — November 6th, 2025

AI-Slop ransomware test sneaks on to VS Code marketplace
A malicious extension with basic ransomware capabilities seemingly created with the help of AI, has been published on Microsoft's official VS Code marketplace.
November 6, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — October 31st, 2025

Visual Studio 2026 to Be Showcased at .NET Conf
Microsoft today invited developers to attend .NET Conf 2025, a free virtual event running Nov. 11-13, highlighting new capabilities coming to Visual Studio 2026. The company describes the conference as a chance to explore how the IDE is evolving to support performance optimization, AI integration, cross-platform development, and modern workflows.
October 31, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — October 30th, 2025

The October 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (17.14) is now available
Microsoft has just released the October 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14). It brings with it a whole bunch of features, including improvements to GitHub Copilot agentic flows and models. The main update regarding Copilot is the availability of Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 in the chat window.
October 30, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — October 15th, 2025

Devs are writing VS Code extensions that blab secrets by the bucketload
Vibe coding may have played a role in what took researchers months to fix
October 15, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — October 10th, 2025

GitHub Introduces New Embedding Model to Improve Code Search and Context
GitHub introduced a new embedding model for Copilot, integrated into Visual Studio Code, to improve code search, context, and suggestions with notable performance gains.
October 10, 2025 — Source

Visual Studio Code 1.105.0 released
The latest version of Visual Studio Code (1.105.0) has been released, featuring significant updates that aim to improve user experience and developer productivity. The new release includes AI-assisted tools for resolving merge conflicts, native authentication on macOS devices, and improved notification systems, making it easier to stay informed about task completion and chat responses. Additionally, users can now customize their experience with enhanced control over prompt files and custom chat modes, and the editor has been updated with a built-in MCP marketplace and improved accessibility features.
October 10, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — October 3rd, 2025

Microsoft reveals big savings on Visual Studio Live! 360 tech conference
Microsoft has announced Visual Studio Live!, as part of the Live 360 Tech Con. It's due to take place from November 16-21 at Universal Orlando's Royal Pacific Resort. The conference will feature 41 tracks which attendees can access at six co-located events under one roof. If you're planning to go, this will let you mix and match sessions across disciplines.
October 3, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — September 26th, 2025

Visual Studio Code 1.104.2 released
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code version 1.104.2, which is a bug fix update for its August 2025 series of releases. The update addresses several key issues, including errors related to completions from Copilot Chat Pipeline and VS Code build process problems. Additionally, the release fixes high-priority issues such as non-existent prompt files crashing in recommendations tile settings and other performance-impacting problems.
September 26, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — September 19th, 2025

AWS Integrates LocalStack with VS-Code Toolkit to Streamline Serverless Development
AWS has announced the integration of LocalStack with the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code, addressing a long-standing challenge in serverless development where developers needed to juggle multiple tools and complex configurations for local testing of event-driven applications.
September 19, 2025 — Source

VS Code Agent Mode: An Architect's Perspective for the .NET Ecosystem
The new agent mode in VS Code appears to be a disruption at first glance. Let's dive a bit deeper from an architect's perspective — from architecture to build.
September 19, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — September 16th, 2025

Latest Visual Studio Code Update Makes You Code Smarter, Not Harder
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, enhanced collaboration tools, and workflow optimization, this release isn't just an incremental improvement, it's a fantastic option for developers of all levels. Imagine effortlessly managing multiple branches, customizing AI agents to match your coding style, or delegating tasks with precision, all from a single, streamlined interface.
September 16, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — August 25th, 2025

Visual Studio Copilot: BYO Model + MCP GA
Visual Studio Copilot: BYO Model + MCP GA
August 25, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — August 22nd, 2025

Microsoft lets devs tell Copilot to STFU in Visual Studio
Update finally gives coders control over when -- and if -- AI butts in
August 22, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — August 21st, 2025

Design Automation in Closure Engineering: Building Parametric Assemblies With CATIA and VB Scripting
CATIA and VB scripting automate closures, boosting precision, reducing rework, and ensuring GD&T-compliant, production-ready models.
August 21, 2025 — Source

Microsoft makes MCP in Visual Studio GA but researchers warn of risks
Compositional risk from multiple MCP Servers highlighted by report
August 21, 2025 — Source

New Agents Panel Brings Copilot Coding Tasks to Visual Studio and VS Code
GitHub has expanded its Copilot coding agent with a new agents panel, giving Visual Studio and VS Code users a centralized way to launch and track AI-driven coding tasks directly alongside their existing workflows.
August 21, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — July 14th, 2025

Coding with AI? My top 5 tips for vetting its output - and staying out of trouble
AI tools are revolutionizing coding and IT work, but are they making developers faster? One study says no. Here's why AI sometimes slows experts down and speeds up mistakes.
July 14, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — June 16th, 2025

Why I'm switching to VS Code. Hint: It's all about AI tool integration
VS Code's AI integration tempted me away from PhpStorm, but getting it set up broke everything. Here's how I fixed it, what I learned, and which AI tools are now available because of the switch.
June 16, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — June 9th, 2025

Microsoft Delays VS Code May 2025 Release; Pushes Ahead on Copilot Chat Open Sourcing
Normally right now we'd be reporting on the May 2025 edition of Visual Studio Code, perhaps detailing the work to take GitHub Copilot Chat open source.
June 9, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — May 23rd, 2025

Visual Studio Code in No Longer an IDE Editor: VSC Evolution
What if the tools you've relied on for years suddenly became something entirely different? That's the reality developers are waking up to as Visual Studio Code, once heralded as a lightweight and flexible IDE, has evolved into a innovative AI-powered editor. This shift isn't just a minor upgrade—it's a redefinition of what a coding environment can be. By integrating advanced AI tools like GitHub Copilot, Visual Studio Code now offers capabilities that were unimaginable just a few years ago, from auto-generating code to streamlining debugging.
May 23, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — May 13th, 2025

Copilot Agent Mode Preview Highlights New Visual Studio 17.14 Release
Agent mode, now in public preview for Visual Studio 17.14, marks a major step forward for AI-assisted development. Unlike previous Copilot features, agent mode can autonomously plan, edit, iterate, and invoke trusted tools-completing complex coding tasks from a single natural language prompt.
May 13, 2025 — Source

Visual Studio Code 1.100.1 released
Microsoft has announced the release of Visual Studio Code 1.100.1 to mitigate a security feature bypass vulnerability.
May 13, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — May 9th, 2025

Visual Studio Code 1.100 launched with custom instructions and reusable prompts for Chat
Microsoft has released the latest version of Visual Studio Code, known as the April 2025 release or version 1.100. It brings plenty of improvements, all of which you can read about below. One notable feature that you should look out for is the ability to craft custom instructions in the Chat feature.
May 9, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — April 4th, 2025

Visual Studio Code March 2025 update gives you agent mode, better accesibility and more
Microsoft has just released the March 2025 (version 1.99) update for its extremely popular code editor, Visual Studio Code. Like all vs. Code updates, this one comes with plenty of improvements. Here's an overview of the main changes in this update:
April 4, 2025 — Source

VS Code v1.99 Is All About Copilot Chat AI, Including Agent Mode
The latest release of Visual Studio Code (v1.99, the March 2025 update) sees a host of AI-related improvements including graduating the "Agent Mode" feature for GitHub Copilot AI from preview to general availability (GA).
April 4, 2025 — Source

Programming — Visual Studio — March 12th, 2025

Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 Preview 2 adds new GPT-4o Copilot code completion model
Microsoft has released the second preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.14. Two of the biggest changes in this update come from GitHub Copilot. They include a new GPT-4o Copilot code completion model and AI doc comment generation. Here are the other main features in this update:
March 12, 2025 — 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