Microsoft is signaling a shift in its AI priorities, favoring Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 over OpenAI's GPT-5 models in its flagship developer tool, Visual Studio Code.

Microsoft is adding automatic AI model selection to its Visual Studio Code editor that will automatically pick the best model ...

Visual Studio Code includes built-in integration with GitHub Copilot and the ability to choose which AI model to use for code ...

Unleash smarter coding with Visual Studio Code’s latest update featuring AI integration, customizable tools, and workflow optimization.

Microsoft has launched its Insiders preview program for Visual Studio 2026, providing insights into what developers can ...

Six years in the making, but some features do not work yet, and has the tool been overtaken by AI? JetBrains has updated ReSharper, its .NET plugin for Visual Studio, with an out-of-process design ...

Although Visual Studio Code is a very useful lightweight code editor, it is actually vanilla Visual Studio that is Microsoft's flagship integrated development environment (IDE). As such, Microsoft ...

Microsoft is bringing its Azure-aware Copilot experience to Visual Studio 2022. The new GitHub Copilot for Azure extension, now in Public Preview for newer Visual Studio 2022 editions, surfaces Azure ...

GitHub Copilot for Azure is now available in Public Preview inside Visual Studio 2022 (version 17.14 or later). The new extension integrates directly with the Azure MCP server, letting developers ...

Microsoft has officially integrated OpenAI’s GPT-5 into GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio, marking one of the fastest adoptions of a new frontier AI model in a major developer tool. The rollout comes ...