Content by Visual Studio Code (233)
Visual Studio Code shows how to move between the editor and Agents Window without losing context. This short focuses on navigating between coding and AI agent interactions within the development environment.
Visual Studio Code demonstrates how to use IntelliSense and GitHub Copilot to write, explain, and improve PostgreSQL queries without switching tools. The workflow also covers running queries and validating their results directly in the editor.
Visual Studio Code demonstrates Agent Bake Off by running six AI coding agents on the same Windows settings reorganization. The video compares results, tool use, context, and cost, then shows how judging and synthesis can combine the strongest ideas into a finished change, including when starting without an existing project.
Visual Studio Code shows how to work with PostgreSQL directly in the editor. The video covers connecting to a database, exploring its tables, and writing SQL without switching to a separate database tool.
Visual Studio Code highlights a small celebratory interaction: hitting Done cues confetti. This short focuses on a visual detail in the coding environment rather than a broader technical walkthrough.
Visual Studio Code demonstrates a PostgreSQL performance troubleshooting workflow, tracing an application slowdown from initial signals to database workload and query evidence. The episode covers Azure Advisor guidance, controlled actions, result verification, and a Database Agent experience that brings issue context and recommendations together while retaining review and approval.
Visual Studio Code demonstrates how the PostgreSQL extension and GitHub Copilot help you explore an unfamiliar database. The episode covers inspecting schemas, tables, views, and functions, visualizing relationships, asking context-aware questions in Copilot Chat, and checking answers against the database to understand its data model.
Visual Studio Code demonstrates a PostgreSQL workflow combining the PostgreSQL extension’s IntelliSense and database context with GitHub Copilot. The video covers drafting, explaining, analyzing, and improving SQL queries, then running them, inspecting results, and exporting data without leaving the editor, while keeping developers in control of the final queries.
Visual Studio Code demonstrates how to bring PostgreSQL workflows into the editor using Microsoft’s PostgreSQL extension. Learn to install the extension, connect to a PostgreSQL database on Azure with Microsoft Entra ID, save connection profiles, and explore database objects without switching tools.
Visual Studio Code introduces a four-part video series focused on doing more PostgreSQL work directly inside VS Code, including connecting to databases, writing and optimizing SQL, using GitHub Copilot to understand database context, and troubleshooting performance, with Azure mentioned as the underlying platform for modern PostgreSQL workloads.
Visual Studio Code highlights improvements to the built-in Markdown editor, focusing on a smoother writing and editing workflow inside VS Code.
Visual Studio Code introduces Canvases (Preview), a shared workspace concept in VS Code designed to help teams plan releases, prioritize backlog work, and collaborate with a coding agent using contextual cards that can be turned into actionable plans.
Visual Studio Code shares quick, practical tips for working faster in the VS Code integrated terminal, including toggling the terminal, opening new terminals, splitting terminals side by side, and clearing noisy output.
Visual Studio Code highlights what’s new in VS Code v1.142, including interactive canvases for agent workflows, chat handoffs that keep context, and new Markdown editing capabilities, with a link to the full weekly update notes.
Visual Studio Code shows how to keep momentum while working with agents by highlighting text to ask follow-up questions in a side chat with its own context, or quoting selected text directly into your current chat for an immediate response.
Visual Studio Code shows how the Agents window can create and manage a pull request end-to-end, including drafting the PR title and description, tracking CI checks, monitoring reviews, resolving conflicts, keeping the branch in sync, and merging automatically with configurable control.
Visual Studio Code shares a short video about adding Halloween-themed styling to VS Code, focusing on customizing the editor’s look and feel with themes.
Visual Studio Code introduces “Blobby” as the new VS Code Pet and shows how to enable it from GitHub Copilot Chat using the /vscode-pet command.
Visual Studio Code shows how to use the Thunder Client extension to send API requests and view responses directly inside VS Code, keeping API testing alongside your code while you build and debug your app.
Visual Studio Code shares five VS Code keyboard shortcuts focused on faster text selection, covering quick ways to select lines, words, matches, and columns while editing code.
Visual Studio Code highlights the Debug Visualizer extension for VS Code, showing how it can visualize data structures while debugging so you can watch algorithms evolve as your program runs.
Visual Studio Code highlights how the Prettier extension simplifies consistent code formatting directly in VS Code, making it easier to keep files clean and standardized while you work.
Visual Studio Code shows how to customize the Agents window using new background support, focusing on personalizing the AI/agent experience inside the editor.
Visual Studio Code shows how to connect your own Azure-hosted AI models to GitHub Copilot in VS Code using Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), so teams can control which models are available in Copilot and pick the right model for different coding tasks.
Visual Studio Code announces a new “VS Code pet” coding companion that you can trigger from GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code using the /vscode-pet command, and invites the community to submit name ideas during a one-week window.
Visual Studio Code highlights how to get a new set of file icons in VS Code quickly, pointing viewers to the Catppuccin icon theme link for a fast editor refresh.
Visual Studio Code announces “MCP Live” (September 9, 9 AM PT), a live event with experts from Microsoft, GitHub, Anthropic, Okta, Prefect, and Amazon focused on updates across the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem.
Visual Studio Code highlights Emmet, a built-in VS Code feature that speeds up writing HTML (and related markup) using short abbreviations and expansions.
Visual Studio Code shows how to use the Command Palette to navigate faster in VS Code, including opening recent files, jumping to symbols in the current file, grouping symbols by type, and searching for symbols across the entire workspace.
Visual Studio Code shares a trailer for “The Story of VS Code,” a documentary-style look at how VS Code evolved from early web editor experiments into a widely used open-source editor and extension ecosystem, and how the team is adapting as AI changes what a code editor can be.
Visual Studio Code announces MCP Live (September 9) and invites developers to register to hear updates and learn what’s new across the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem.
Visual Studio Code shares a quick tip focused on staying in the editor flow by creating new files quickly while you work.
Visual Studio Code shares a quick tip on adjusting editor and terminal font sizes independently, so you can make text larger or smaller without zooming the entire VS Code interface.
Visual Studio Code shows how to use VS Code’s Test Explorer to quickly filter tests, locate a failing test from CI, debug the failure, inspect results, and rerun the test without leaving the editor.
Visual Studio Code shows how to manage the AI models available in VS Code, including GitHub Copilot models, local models, and bring-your-own-key providers, using quick show/hide and pin controls to keep the model list focused on what you actually use.
Visual Studio Code shares a quick tip on using GitHub Copilot in VS Code to generate a correct launch.json by analyzing package.json, so you can run and debug scripts using the built-in debugger without manually remembering configuration syntax.
Visual Studio Code shows how the Outline view helps you navigate code faster by giving a structured list of symbols in the current file, so you can jump directly to classes, functions, variables, and other definitions without scrolling.
Visual Studio Code highlights an “auto-reload” tip aimed at speeding up the edit-refresh loop when working on web content like HTML.
Visual Studio Code highlights the Mobile Canvas extension, which lets developers control and interact with Android and iOS apps directly from within VS Code.
Visual Studio Code shows how to get GitHub Copilot in VS Code using the GitHub MCP server without installing an extension or manually editing mcp.json configuration files.