Five free Marketplace extensions promise private, locally run coding assistance as developers look for alternatives to metered cloud AI.

Visual Studio Code releases major updates once a month, and right on schedule, version 1.109 is now rolling out to desktop platforms. It's the continuation of Microsoft's push for making VS Code "the ...

Have you ever wondered if your go-to tools might be holding you back? For millions of developers, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is the undisputed champion of code editors, celebrated for its ...

New controls for model reasoning and Copilot code-review depth let developers decide how much AI effort a task warrants, with speed, depth and credit consumption all part of the tradeoff.

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 ...