At its core, VS Code is built on an open source project called Code OSS, published under the permissive MIT license.

The Jupyter extension brings Jupyter Notebook functionality into VS Code. It lets you create, open, and edit .ipynb files ...

Microsoft has released a new version of the C++ extension for its popular Visual Studio Code (VS Code) code editor. The new release is an official VS Code C++ extension for Windows 10 and Linux ...

Microsoft previewed new advancements for the GitHub Copilot tool for Visual Studio Code. The GitHub Copilot "AI pair programmer" already provides such advanced code-completion functionality that ...

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA. There was a time when your choices for Java IDEs were ...

Announced at Microsoft's Build 2015 developers conference a year ago, Visual Studio Code -- the company's lightweight cross-platform code editor -- has hit the 1.0 milestone. Microsoft officials ...

The Visual Studio Code team continues to add Java functionality to Microsoft's open source, cross-platform code editor via extensions, just launching a new batch for working with Maven, Tomcat and ...

Microsoft's monthly update to its wildly popular open source, cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor has a new JavaScript debugger. Working with Node.js and Chrome, the debugger that has been in the ...

VS Code 1.105 also introduces a built-in MCP server marketplace and allows users to resume recent Copilot Chat sessions.