Visual Studio Magazine

VS 2026 Joins VS Code with Integrated Cloud Agent: Assign a Task, Close the IDE, Get a PR

Visual Studio 2026 now surfaces a "Cloud" option in the Copilot Chat agent picker, bringing it in line with VS Code, which has offered cloud agent delegation for longer. The cloud agent runs on GitHub ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Java on Visual Studio Code Going Cloud Native

Cloud-native development figures prominently in a new roadmap published by Microsoft's Java on Visual Studio Code dev team. As part of its duties, the Java dev team maintains extensions, including the ...
InfoWorld

What is Visual Studio Code? Microsoft’s extensible code editor

Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on your desktop and on the web and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS. It comes with ...
InfoWorld

Review: Visual Studio Code shines for Java

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA. There was a time when your choices for Java IDEs were ...
Business Insider

Here’s why 8.5 million users love Visual Studio Code, the free software that’s helping Microsoft win over programmers in the cloud wars with Amazon

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. For a long time, Microsoft had the reputation for being unfriendly to developers. After all, Microsoft ...