Visual Studio Code 1.133 removes mandatory GitHub sign-in for Agents and adds easier AI model switching and sticky chat ...

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Microsoft offered a discount for subscribers to its flagship Visual Studio IDE who are interested in attending an August developer conference being held at company headquarters in Redmond, Wash. A ...

MCP (Model Context Protocol) provides a universal standard for connecting LLMs to external data sources and tools, eliminating the need to manually copy-paste context into a chat session and enabling ...

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 2026 has Fluent UI and ships with 11 tinted themes. Source: Microsoft Dev Blogs Microsoft unveils Visual Studio 2026 with deeper AI integration, faster performance, and a refreshed ...

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 ...

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