Microsoft brings lots of new features and improvements to its popular open-source code editor, Visual Studio Code.

In 2015, Microsoft launched its answer to that question: Visual Studio Code. At heart, VS Code is a text editor, based on GitHub’s cross-platform Electron framework.

To try it out, users need to enable the mode in a VS Code Insiders download; just look for "copilot agent" in VS Code's settings. Furthering the company's agentic AI initiatives, GitHub also announced ...

Microsoft has open sourced the GitHub Copilot Chat extension, marking a major step in turning VS Code into an open-source AI editor focused on transparency, collaboration, and community-driven ...