Visual Studio Code 1.108 expands AI capabilities with experimental Agent Skills for Copilot, alongside updates to chat sessions, terminal tooling, accessibility, and core editor workflows.
C# was named TIOBE’s Programming Language of the Year, while the index also pointed to a potential rise for TypeScript. Here’s how the latest rankings compare across TIOBE, RedMonk, and PYPL.
Strong holiday viewership of advanced VSLive! Orlando sessions points to growing demand for immersive, hands-on training as AI-assisted development and modern .NET architectures reshape how developers work.
Developers on Reddit discussing upgrades from .NET 8 to .NET 10 report few breaking changes, minimal effort, and consistent performance and LTS benefits, even across large, multi-project codebases.
Microsoft has moved C++ into Visual Studio's deepest Copilot tier, adding symbol-aware tools in public preview that let Copilot agent mode refactor and edit large C++ codebases across multiple files, similar to the kind of deep integration long associated with C#
Microsoft was again named a Leader in Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms, highlighting Azure AI Foundry’s enterprise focus.
Microsoft has begun decommissioning IntelliCode in VS Code, ending free local AI-assisted completions and shifting its developer AI strategy fully to subscription-based GitHub Copilot.
GitHub Spark, an AI app-generation tool separate from Copilot still in public preview, gains enterprise, billing, and UI upgrades in its latest update.
Microsoft's November 2025 Visual Studio Code update (version 1.107) advances multi-agent orchestration for GitHub Copilot and custom agents, adds a centralized Language Models editor and new safety controls, and continues work on TypeScript 7 and MCP integration.
dtSearch version 2025.02 extends its search engine line with new Linux ARM64 support, updated x64/ARM64 builds for Windows and macOS, and enhanced JSON/CSV handling for high-volume enterprise and developer workloads.
Microsoft previews a GitHub Copilot-powered VS Code Insiders tool that modernizes JavaScript/TypeScript apps by upgrading npm dependencies and fixing breaking changes.
Azure DevOps Server is now generally available as Microsoft’s production-ready, self-hosted DevOps platform, with ongoing updates and Git-first enhancements.
GitHub changelog posts detail new Copilot Spaces sharing features, a Visual Studio Copilot update, and public preview access to OpenAI's GPT-5.1-Codex-Max model.
Microsoft is expanding Azure's AI stack with more model choices in Microsoft Foundry and more flexible hybrid and sovereign deployment paths, reinforcing a build-on-Azure-AI, deploy-where-needed approach.
Aspire 13 adds official, first-class Python support so distributed apps can orchestrate Python services natively alongside other Aspire resources.
Threat actors are still abusing Visual Studio Code extensions as an entry point, with the latest fake Prettier incident showing a multi-stage path from marketplace install to credential theft and full remote access.
Microsoft has launched the VS Code Insiders Podcast, a new behind-the-scenes audio show that digs into experimental features, the people building them and what may be coming next to Visual Studio Code.
GitHub Copilot users can now select Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 model in chat across Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio (plus several other IDEs) during a new public preview.
Microsoft Foundry has introduced a preview cloud-hosted Foundry MCP Server that lets AI agents securely access Foundry tools for model, agent, deployment, and evaluation workflows from VS Code, Visual Studio, or Foundry itself
Since its Nov. 11 debut, Visual Studio 2026 sees improved Copilot Chat response quality by enhancing semantic code search with remote indexes, expanding awareness of external C# symbols, and increasing accuracy when developers reference specific line numbers, alongside new Copilot features like a GitHub Cloud Agent preview, context-menu actions, and intent detection in All-In-One Search.