Content by Visual Studio Code (185)
Visual Studio Code shares a quick update that OpenAI reduced pricing for GPT-5.6 Luna and GPT-5.6 Terra, and points developers to try both models directly in VS Code.
Visual Studio Code shares a quick tip for reducing token usage and improving GitHub Copilot results by running a grammar check on your prompt before submitting it in VS Code.
Visual Studio Code highlights three popular dark themes for VS Code—One Dark Pro, Midnight City, and Tokyo Night—prompting developers to compare the look and pick a favorite for their editor setup.
Visual Studio Code shows the different ways to split the integrated terminal, making it easier to work with multiple shells or tasks side-by-side while staying inside the editor.
Visual Studio Code shows how the new Migration feature in VS Code turns existing prompts into reusable skills, focusing on a faster way to organize and reuse prompt-driven workflows inside the editor.
Visual Studio Code shares a short announcement for a new course on using Foundry Toolkit in VS Code to build, test, debug, and deploy AI applications.
Visual Studio Code shares a short clip highlighting a GitHub Copilot-related “did you know?” tip in VS Code, framed as a quick GitHub “hacking” moment for developers.
Visual Studio Code shows how to use Oh My Posh to customize and improve the terminal prompt inside VS Code, with a link to the Oh My Posh project for setup and themes.
Visual Studio Code introduces the VS Code Learn extension, aimed at making it easier to get started with agentic development workflows inside VS Code.
Visual Studio Code shows how to give GitHub Copilot more context by sharing your running website through VS Code’s Integrated Browser, so Copilot can reference what you’re seeing while you work.
Visual Studio Code runs through the five most popular VS Code extensions in 2026 so far, highlighting what developers are installing to improve their day-to-day workflow inside the editor.
Visual Studio Code shares quick tips for using the integrated terminal inside VS Code to speed up common command-line tasks without leaving the editor.
Visual Studio Code shows how to run language models locally in VS Code using the Ollama extension, including configuring custom models, bring-your-own-key providers, and utility model settings, with an emphasis on keeping processing private on your machine.
Visual Studio Code highlights TypeScript 7.0 and its “10x faster” native port, and points developers to a VS Code extension to try the updated TypeScript experience in the editor.
Visual Studio Code shares a short sizzle reel promoting VS Code Learn, a set of free, hands-on courses created by the VS Code team to help developers learn VS Code features and workflows.
Visual Studio Code highlights the CodeSnap extension for VS Code, showing how it helps developers create cleaner, more shareable screenshots of code quickly.
Visual Studio Code shows how VS Code Tasks can help you quickly rerun common project commands by defining them once and triggering them from the editor.
Visual Studio Code introduces VS Code Learn, a hands-on learning hub with short videos, guided exercises, and practical examples aimed at helping developers get more out of the editor, including content that touches on AI, agents, and day-to-day developer productivity.
Visual Studio Code highlights a quick path for moving a project from .NET Framework 4.8 to .NET 10 in VS Code, and points viewers to the AwesomeCopilot repository for related resources.
Visual Studio Code shares a quick set of “top tips” from the engineering team, highlighting practical editor features like subagents, favorite shortcuts, and a few hidden easter eggs, plus a mention of event agent markdown files and GitHub Copilot-related workflows.
Visual Studio Code introduces “bring your own key” support, letting developers use their own model provider API keys with VS Code and GitHub Copilot without signing in, and points to the setup guide for enabling expanded model choice.
Visual Studio Code shows how to use VS Code’s language model system to bring your own AI provider without signing into Copilot, including native providers like Anthropic, custom endpoints, third-party integrations, and running local models offline.
Visual Studio Code shares a quick walkthrough of three MCP servers they use daily in VS Code—GitHub, Playwright, and Microsoft Learn—to extend GitHub Copilot Agent mode for PR review, real-browser testing, and pulling up-to-date documentation as context.
Visual Studio Code highlights new Integrated Browser improvements in VS Code, including saving browser favorites, taking full-page or region screenshots, and using browser content as context for GitHub Copilot and agent workflows.
Visual Studio Code shows how the Mermaid Markdown Features extension renders Mermaid diagrams directly in VS Code, including Markdown Preview, notebook Markdown cells, and VS Code Chat, so teams can keep architecture and workflow diagrams alongside their docs and code.
Visual Studio Code hosts the final Agents League challenge, where experts build business-ready knowledge agents integrated with Microsoft 365 and authored in Copilot Studio, and the audience is sent into a last sprint before the hackathon closes on June 14.
Visual Studio Code hosts an Agents League session where experts demonstrate building reasoning-based AI agents with Microsoft Foundry, focused on solving complex problems and helping participants apply the approach in their hackathon submissions.
Visual Studio Code kicks off the Agents League with a creative app-building battle, where experts demonstrate AI-assisted development using GitHub Copilot and share ideas participants can apply to their own hackathon submissions.
Visual Studio Code hosts a Microsoft Build 2026 live stage session with demos and discussion spanning GitHub Copilot, the Copilot SDK, and VS Code workflows. It touches on agent integration, multi-model verification, security concerns in AI code review, and developer tooling updates shared by the teams building them.
Visual Studio Code hosts a live Microsoft Build session with the GitHub Copilot team, covering agentic development across the Copilot ecosystem. The agenda includes Copilot CLI, building with the GitHub Copilot SDK, and a segment on .NET Aspire alongside Copilot and related tooling.
Visual Studio Code shares a short clip about “Copilot Teaches”, pointing to a longer explanation of how GitHub Copilot customization works in VS Code using concepts like instructions, skills, and hooks.
GitHub hosts a Microsoft Build 2026 Day 2 live stream focused on what’s new in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code, featuring product updates, live demos, and announcements from the teams building the tools.
Visual Studio Code shows how to run skills in a dedicated sub-agent in @code so your main Copilot Chat context stays clean and focused.
Visual Studio Code shares a short tip on when to use prompts versus relying on defaults, focusing on prompt customization in the VS Code workflow.
Visual Studio Code introduces how Copilot Agents in VS Code can use tools safely, covering what tools and tool sets are, how permissions work, and how sandboxing helps control what an agent is allowed to do during a run.
Visual Studio Code highlights a VS Code “hook” feature and points to a longer video that goes deeper on how hooks can be used to customize the editor experience.
Visual Studio Code introduces the new Agent Customization window, showing how developers can tailor agent behavior and related settings directly in the editor.
Visual Studio Code highlights the Chat Customizations Evaluation extension for VS Code, which helps developers review and refine prompts, agents, and instructions files as part of an AI-focused workflow.
Liam Hampton introduces Agent Plugins in Visual Studio Code and shows how they extend GitHub Copilot agents with additional tools. The session focuses on installing plugins and understanding how agent tooling fits into the VS Code Copilot agents workflow.
Visual Studio Code features Reynald Adolphe demonstrating how to create and use Custom Agents in VS Code (Agent Mode) so GitHub Copilot can take on specialized roles—like a security reviewer—using your project context, tools, and workflow to produce more focused results.