In a social media feedback thread started by Microsoft Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen, multiple developers unloaded on the IDE's facility with AI provided by GitHub Copilot and other tools.

Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions.

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 ...

Pixel Agents adds a pixel office view in VS Code; six character styles show coding, searching, or idle states, useful for ...

File-based apps, extension members, nameof improvements, and user-defined compound assignment operators make life easier for C# programmers. You’ll need .NET 10.

Claude Code Superpowers plugin enforces TDD and hard checkpoints; it uses four debugging phases, trading speed for fewer skipped steps ...