Microsoft's latest VS Code update adds provider switching and a GitHub-free entry path specifically for Claude sessions.

Microsoft is increasingly treating Claude as a first-class option across dev tooling and AI products. For one prominent example of that trend, Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor is extending Claude ...

Microsoft is bringing five more Claude-native capabilities to Azure-hosted deployments, extending a pattern of accommodating Anthropic's models, APIs and agent tooling across Microsoft and GitHub ...

VS Code model picker now allows users to switch between Anthropic and Copilot providers between turns reconfiguring the agent host. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.133, an update to its ...

Visual Studio Code 1.133 removes mandatory GitHub sign-in for Agents and adds easier AI model switching and sticky chat ...

Build an AI-powered E-E-A-T auditor that crawls websites, applies Google's quality guidance and generates polished reports in ...

Visual Studio Code 1.130 brings some agent host rearchitecturing and an option to reduce approval interruptions during large agent tasks. Another week has passed us by which means it is time for ...

Nine out of ten developers regularly use a coding agent. Claude Code leads the popularity list by a large margin.

Visual Studio Code is moving to weekly releases. Microsoft will replace the long-standing monthly update cycle with smaller weekly updates, starting with version 1.111, to deliver features more ...