In a new video, Mads Kristensen walked through 10 extensions and updates aimed at common developer requests, spanning workspace modes, comment handling, scratch files, Markdown linting, CSV editing, Azure resource access and even animated pets.
Claude Code has pulled ahead of OpenAI's Codex in VS Code Marketplace adoption metrics for tools tagged with "agent," just one way to judge these tools for your particular needs in this rapidly evolving space.
A new Visual Studio Code extension called Nogic sparked a wide-ranging Hacker News discussion, with commenters praising its graph-based approach to understanding complex codebases while also raising concerns about performance, scalability, and its initially closed-source status.
A review of five non-Copilot AI coding assistants available in the Visual Studio Marketplace that support Visual Studio 2026 and exceed 100,000 installs.
A roundup of the six most-installed "agentic" AI extensions in the VS Code Marketplace reveals how tools like Cline, BLACKBOXAI Agent, Continue, Codex, Roo Code, and Qodo Gen are transforming code editors into autonomous, context-aware development partners.
Two of the three offerings bring AI-assisted productivity to .NET and cross-platform app developers. Highlights include AI coding assistants, low-code view generators, new UI components, and enhanced design-time tools.
VS Code tools for riding the vibe and letting AI bring your programming dreams to life.
With Microsoft's "copilot" AI assistants springing up everywhere, here are the 10 most popular VS Code tools that mention or are tagged with the term.
With new generative AI tools shaking up the software development space, there are now more than 400 AI-infused extensions in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace.
Upon wizard completion, the tool wires everything up, basically abstracting the coding drudgery of manually grabbing NuGet packages and implementing Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control, constructor injections and so on.
With Visual Studio 2022 having debuted just one month ago, there are now dozens of new extensions available specifically targeting the revolutionary 64-bit IDE.
Testing can be problematic for devs who just want to code and leave the testing to specialists, but many have to DIY. These tools help with that.
Mobilize.Net, an "automated modernization" specialist headed by a former Microsoft corporate VP, has upgraded its Visual Basic upgrade tool to target .NET Core, the open source, cross-platform successor of the Windows-only .NET Framework.
DevOps specialist GitLab has officially taken over the control of a GitLab extension for Microsoft's open source, cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor.
Visual Studio senior program manager Mads Kristensen has created a new extension pack for the IDE to ease the acquisition of the basic tools that would benefit all developers.