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.

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 ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

Microsoft has declared general availability for MCP (model context protocol) servers in Visual Studio, likely to be the second most popular IDE after Visual Studio Code and with wide enterprise use.

Apple is still working on a next-generation version of the Studio Display, and MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris discovered signs of the new display in Apple code. The upcoming Studio Display 2 has a ...

Crashes occur during the initial IDE startup when loading extensions or caches, immediately after installing updates (e.g., .NET upgrades or Visual Studio patches), or during specific actions such as ...

A new study of integrated development environments (IDEs) like Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, and Cursor has revealed weaknesses in how they handle the extension ...

Anthropic’s powerful AI assistant, Claude, now offers deep integration into VS Code. This move of Anthropic brings Claude’s advanced reasoning and code generation capabilities directly into the most ...

What if the tools you’ve relied on for years suddenly became something entirely different? That’s the reality developers are waking up to as Visual Studio Code, once heralded as a lightweight and ...

Microsoft announced that Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code now have a collective 50 million monthly active users (MAUs). “I’m thrilled to share that we’ve hit an incredible milestone together: 50 ...

If you want to set and use Deepseek-R1 in Visual Studio Code, follow the steps below. Install Visual Studio Code Download Ollama Install the CodeGPT Extension Install DeepSeek models Use DeepSeek in ...