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 ...

See the VS Code Tips wiki for a quick primer on getting started with VS Code. Setting up the JDK The extension requires JDK 17 or newer to run. Optionally, set a different JDK to compile and run ...

The Container Tools extension makes it easy to build, manage, and deploy containerized applications from Visual Studio Code. It also provides one-click debugging of Node.js, Python, and .NET inside a ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. is a senior correspondent and author of ...

The Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available, allowing agents to be developed and managed directly from the editor. The extension enables software-style workflows for ...

Visual Studio 2026 is a full-featured 64-bit IDE, built to handle large solutions and complex workloads with better performance and stability. It also leans harder into AI-assisted development, with ...

Visual Studio 2026 includes GitHub Copilot functionality built into the IDE, while third-party AI coding assistants remain available through the Visual Studio Marketplace. Using Marketplace install ...

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...

You start by getting the official installer from the Visual Studio Code website. Open your preferred browser on Windows. Go to the Visual Studio Code download page ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...

Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. is a senior ...

The Visual Studio Code editor can sometimes encounter issues that leave you with no choice but to reset its settings. Resetting the settings reverts everything back to default, allowing VS Code to ...