The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.112, shortly after announcing a faster release cadence for the popular editor. Despite the quicker update cycle, this release introduces several notable ...

VS Code 1.112 shipped March 18 with expanded Copilot agent autonomy controls. A new Autopilot permission level lets Copilot CLI run tasks without user approval dialogs. MCP server sandboxing restricts ...

VS Code 1.112 agents can now read image files from disk. The image carousel can open generated or selected images in chat. My PoC used three leaderboard screenshots to summarize model trade-offs.

Version 6.0 is here! This milestone features several enhancements focused on integration with GitHub Copilot to help our extension be AI-ready. IDL Agent is a set of dedicated MCP tools and ...

See the VS Code Tips wiki for a quick primer on getting started with VS Code. Setting up the JDK The extension requires JDK 17 or newer to run. Optionally, set a different JDK to compile and run ...