The original AI-powered code completion tool stemming from early OpenAI technology, GitHub Copilot, now comes in a free tier for the Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code, along with other editors.

GitHub’s open-source Spec Kit formalizes spec-driven development for AI coding agents by providing a CLI, templates, and prompts that move work through specification, plan, tasks, and implementation, ...

Seamless Integration with Visual Studio Code GitHub Copilot is fully integrated into Visual Studio Code, eliminating the need for additional installations or complex setup processes.

Now, it is enabled for all Copilot for Individual users for free, supported in both Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code editors.

The August 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 is now out, offering new AI capabilities and even ways to scale back AI ...

GitKraken launched GitLens 12, an open-source Visual Studio Code extension that enables using Git from Visual Studio Code for the Web and github.dev. Besides new free features, improvements, and ...

Git in Visual Studio Code With Git and GitHub everywhere at Microsoft, it’s also built into Microsoft’s developer tools and into how developers build apps on Windows and for Azure. When you ...

Download Visual Studio Code Insider. Learn how to sync settings, run public & insider versions together. Difference with Visual Studio IDE also discussed.

Visual Studio Code now supports discovery for nested Git repositories and improves autoscrolling, among other features.

The latest version of Visual Studio 2019, v16.4, brings a new integration with Microsoft-owned code-sharing site GitHub, which allows users to publish code directly from Team Explorer, the feature ...