Zed, the Rust-Made Coding Editor, Hits 1.0

Zed is a completely new software coding text editor written entirely in the memory-safe Rust programming language.
Visual Studio Magazine

VS 2026 Joins VS Code with Integrated Cloud Agent: Assign a Task, Close the IDE, Get a PR

Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions ...
Windows Report

Visual Studio Code Update Adds Remote Copilot Control and Enterprise AI Restrictions

VS Code 1.118 adds remote Copilot control, enterprise AI restrictions, and smarter caching while improving developer ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Building and Using MCP Servers in Visual Studio

Microsoft Product Manager Mike Kistler previews his Visual Studio Live! session on how MCP servers give .NET developers a universal standard for connecting AI models to external data and tools -- and ...
Stark Insider

Three Models of Agentic Development, and Why the IDE Still Wins

A tool I’ve been using for a while, Roo Code, an extension for Visual Studio Code, recently made a decision that got me ...
WinBuzzer

VS Code Now Stamps GitHub Copilot as Git Commit Co-Author

Visual Studio Code 1.118 now stamps a Copilot co-author trailer on Git commits by default after PR #310226 flipped ...