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VS Code is no longer just an IDE.

The Python extension will automatically install the following extensions by default to provide the best Python development experience in VS Code: If you set this setting to true, you will manually opt ...

Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions. Microsoft has introduced C++ ...

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

According to @bcherny on X, developers can ask Claude to customize spinner verbs in Claude Code and persist them in settings.json for source control sharing across teams, enabling a consistent, ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that are advertised as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistants, but also harbor ...

The Copilot Studio extension lets developers use any VS Code-compatible AI assistant to develop AI agents, then sync with Copilot Studio for testing and iteration. Microsoft is offering a Microsoft ...

VS Code snippets and keybinding-based editor.action.insertSnippet commands can replicate the core behavior of unmaintained extensions such as htmltagwrap. Different approaches -- custom extensions, ...

In this post, we will show you how to create real-time interactive flowcharts for your code using VS Code CodeVisualizer. CodeVisualizer is a free, open-source Visual Studio Code extension that ...

A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...