We need to start by downloading the Git installer (e.g., 64-bit for Windows) from the official website (git-scm.com). Now, initiate the installation by clicking through the setup wizard. During the ...

Microsoft has just launched Visual Studio Code 1.126, its latest weekly release. This time, the company has focused on letting you see the total cost of chat sessions to spot expensive conversations; ...

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and offline models, but with some limits. Microsoft has been pushing hard to make ...

VS Code 1.121 was released May 20, 2026, featuring yet another update to Claude Code, becoming more and more a first-class citizen in the VS Code ecosystem. Remote agents can run over SSH or dev ...

Visual Studio has never really been the lightweight option. It's not the tool you open just to tweak a config file or write a quick script. It is the big Windows development environment, the one built ...

Visual Studio Code is moving to weekly releases. Microsoft will replace the long-standing monthly update cycle with smaller weekly updates, starting with version 1.111, to deliver features more ...

As a tech journalist who quickly latched onto agentic AI to improve my editorial processes, I've become a Markdown maven. Markdown, as every Visual Studio Magazine reader knows, was previously best ...

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

Modern IDEs are evolving into AI-powered hubs for coding, content, and productivity. Get your scorecards out, we have yet another update in the ever expanding world of code editors. The barrier to ...

Treat this as an immediate security incident, CISOs advised; researchers say it’s one of the most sophisticated supply chain attacks they’ve seen, and it’s spreading. A month after a self-propagating ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...

Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. is a senior ...