Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP servers, and hooks.

The new release allows using experimental agent plug-ins and the new Agent Debug Panel offers detailed insights into chat ...

In a social media feedback thread started by Microsoft Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen, multiple developers unloaded on the IDE's facility with AI provided by GitHub Copilot and other tools.

Visual Studio Code 1.110 (February 2026) adds new agent extensibility, browser-driving chat tools, and expanded chat accessibility.

Pixel Agents adds a pixel office view in VS Code; six character styles show coding, searching, or idle states, useful for ...

Facebook has announced that it's moving on from its own custom development tool to Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. The social network will also work to improve its remote development tools. Facebook ...

UPDATE: After the story was published, a Microsoft spokesperson told BleepingComputer that the announcement was mistakenly published and Visual Studio Code for the Web hasn't yet reached public ...