Marketplace that were collectively installed 1.5 million times, exfiltrate developer data to China-based servers.

The project is in an experimental, pre-alpha, exploratory phase with the intention to be productionized. We move fast, break things, and explore various aspects of the seamless developer experience ...

A spear-phishing campaign tied to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) uses trusted Microsoft infrastructure to ...

A new Visual Studio Code extension called Nogic sparked a wide-ranging Hacker News discussion, with commenters praising its ...

An experimental feature in VS Code 1.108, Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that GitHub Copilot can load for specialized tasks.

This bundle combines Microsoft’s professional-grade IDE with guided programming courses to help beginners build real coding skills at a fraction of the usual cost.

Microsoft and Linux are adding AI and Rust to their pipelines. Microsoft is leaning much harder into AI development than Linux. Both are expanding Rust, but neither OS will be fully Rust soon.

Microsoft is expanding GitHub Copilot's deepest Visual Studio integration to C++, giving the AI assistant compiler-backed insight into entire C++ codebases so it can refactor and modify projects ...

A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...

The Glassworm campaign, which first emerged on the OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio marketplaces in October, is now in its third wave, with 24 new packages added on the two platforms. OpenVSX and ...

TL;DR: Right now, you can get a lifetime license to Visual Studio Pro for only $10. One of the most popular developer environments is Microsoft Visual Studio Pro. It can be expensive to get access, ...