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It's by far the most popular tool in the marketplace with more than 53 million installs, nearly 20 million more than any other extension.
04/01/2022
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Microsoft announced the general availability of a Visual Studio Code extension for working with the Power Platform, a line of business intelligence, app development and app connectivity applications.
03/24/2022
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The regular monthly update to Java on Visual Studio Code sees added shortcut snippets aligning with other editors, optimized code completion, improvements to the Maven build automation tool and more pre-release version of extensions.
03/22/2022
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Microsoft's C++ dev team announced that an Embedded Tools extension introduced to Visual Studio 2022 last year is now available for Visual Studio Code as a preview.
03/10/2022
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After a previous version was canceled, Azure Sphere is back on track in version 22.02, which comes with a brand-new extension for Visual Studio 2022.
03/08/2022
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Microsoft's dev team responsible for the Python in Visual Studio Code experience announced that its extension now supports pre-release versions for the latest cutting-edge bits.
03/04/2022
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Microsoft's Visual Studio Code February 2022 update (v1.65) comes with the usual raft of new features and functionality, including a new theme, audio cues and editor history navigation, along with a preview of terminal shell integration.
03/03/2022
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GitHub announced a public beta of Codespaces prebuilds to speed up the creation of the cloud-hosted Visual Studio Code-based development environments.
02/24/2022
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In a seasonal twist, Microsoft's dev team for Java on Visual Studio Code introduced a special education edition in the February 2022 update, courting educators and students with new functionality as classes resume after a winter break.
02/10/2022
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Improvements to Python in VS Code affect Smart Selection, folding support, the Python interpreters list and Anaconda functionality.
02/09/2022
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Visual Studio Code 1.64 (January 2022 edition) shipped with the usual bevy of new features and functionality, including a new side panel.
02/08/2022
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Cloud-native development figures prominently in a new roadmap published by Microsoft's Java on Visual Studio Code dev team.
01/21/2022
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In its final post of 2021, the Java on Visual Studio Code dev team reports advancements made to improve the fundamental, day-to-day Java development experience: the "inner loop."
12/16/2021
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The regular monthly update for Python in Visual Studio Code sees the dev team adding "one of our most heavily requested features," a new rename factoring experience.
12/13/2021
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The regular monthly update to Visual Studio Code (November 2021 edition, v1.63) lets developers preview themes before using them, improves notebook functionality and provides a new Java welcome experience, along with much more.
12/10/2021
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Here's a look at recent news surrounding what has been called the No. 1 development tool in the world: Visual Studio Code.
12/09/2021
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GitHub's "Release Radar" for November shows a Visual Studio Code snippets project leading a raft of open source offerings that reached general availability in November.
12/07/2021
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Uno Platform 4.0 is out, highlighted by a new extension for working in Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor.
12/02/2021
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Software development tooling vendor JetBrains debuted a new lightweight code editor that can act like a full-fledged IDE, immediately drawing comparisons to Microsoft's Visual Studio Code.
11/30/2021
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Java jockeys using Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor will see faster code completions thanks to a new language server.
11/29/2021
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Microsoft officially pounded the last nail into the open source Microsoft Python Language Server coffin, replacing it with the company's proprietary Pylance extension for coding with Python in Visual Studio Code.
11/05/2021
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The latest monthly update to Java on Visual Studio Code adds a Gradle extension, simplifies Code Actions execution and leverages an "important milestone," the v1.0 release of a new language server developed with Red Hat.
10/29/2021
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Microsoft-owned GitHub announced several updates to its sprawling development and code repository platform, including two fairly new offerings: GitHub Copilot, described as an "AI pair programmer," and GitHub Codespaces, which provides an instant, customized, online version of VS Code that runs in the browser and is tied into the platform.
10/27/2021
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Five years in the making, a Visual Studio Code extension providing Java language support from Red Hat has shipped in version 1.0.
10/25/2021
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"Now when you go to https://vscode.dev, you'll be presented with a lightweight version of VS Code running fully in the browser. Open a folder on your local machine and start coding. No install required."
10/20/2021