Microsoft's fifth July update expands agent monitoring, adds offline speech transcription and changes Python environment management.

A hobby coder's rough return to Visual Studio highlights how IntelliSense, IntelliCode and GitHub Copilot have created several overlapping layers of code completion -- along with settings intended to ...

Microsoft is devoting an unusual share of the early VS Code 1.131 Insiders cycle to built-in dictation, Voice Mode and other speech-driven development features.

Separate Oracle guides for Fusion AI Agent Studio and APEX development illustrate how VS Code has evolved from a popular editor into a foundation for an expanding range of developer experiences.

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With devs reeling from usage-based billing sticker shock, Visual Studio 18.9 makes monthly Copilot plan usage easier to reach from the coding workflow while adding more cost information to a ...

Microsoft's latest weekly VS Code release advances shared agent sessions, multi-file change review, chat visibility and terminal navigation ...

Microsoft's newly released Agent Framework Harness packages the loops, planning, memory, context management and safety controls that developers previously had to assemble around AI models themselves.

Microsoft is moving Agent Skills beyond bring-your-own instructions by shipping expert-authored workflows with the IDE, while keeping them off by default until testing shows their benefits justify the ...

GitHub is layering spending limits, expanded credit allowances and increasingly granular usage reporting onto Copilot, while Microsoft is reworking Visual Studio and VS Code to expose -- and reduce -- ...