Besides its lightweight design and compatibility with all major operating systems, a massive collection of extensions is one of the biggest perks of VS Code. While the code editor is fairly powerful ...

Threat actors are still abusing Visual Studio Code extensions as an entry point, with the latest fake Prettier incident showing a multi-stage path from marketplace install to credential theft and full ...

Oracle has released the Oracle Java Platform extension for Visual Studio Code, bringing full-featured Java development for Maven and Gradle projects to Microsoft’s popular code editor. Available in ...

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There are various code generators, but we have picked a few AI code generator assistants for VS Code and have listed them below. Codeium Github Copilot Tabnine Cody Bito AI Let us talk about them in ...

Microsoft has deactivated the IntelliCode extensions for VS Code and refers to Copilot, which has a limited free volume.

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a flexible, cross-platform editor that can be transformed into a full-blown IDE for most any language or workflow. Over the past few years, it has exploded in ...

A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to "infect" over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy of the popular 'Dracula Official theme ...

A fake extension for the Cursor AI IDE code editor infected devices with remote access tools and infostealers, which, in one case, led to the theft of $500,000 in cryptocurrency from a Russian crypto ...

Normally right now we'd be reporting on the May 2025 edition of Visual Studio Code, perhaps detailing the work to take GitHub Copilot Chat open source. However, Microsoft has extended the development ...