Visual Studio Magazine

Compare New GitHub Copilot Free Plan for Visual Studio/VS Code to Paid Plans

The original AI-powered code completion tool stemming from early OpenAI technology, GitHub Copilot, now comes in a free tier for the Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code, along with other editors.
ZDNet

Installing Microsoft Visual Studio Code on Linux is a snap

VS Code is a lightweight source-code editor. It also includes IntelliSense code completion and debugging tools. Microsoft open-sourced VS Code several years ago. Since then, VS Code, which can be used ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Claude Opus 4.5 Lands in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio and VS Code

GitHub has added Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 to the set of models available in GitHub Copilot Chat, and the model is now selectable directly inside Microsoft developers' primary tools: Visual Studio ...
TechRepublic

How to add a GitHub repository to VS Code

Learn how to add a GitHub repository to VS Code as well as how to install a handy extension to manage pull requests and issues. Virtual Studio Code, also known as VS Code, is one of the most popular ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft brings C++ smarts to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions.