Content by Visual Studio Code (194)
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.
Visual Studio Code shows how the /btw command in the VS Code Agents window opens a side chat that shares context with your main chat, so you can ask quick questions without derailing your current task.
Visual Studio Code shows how VS Code dictation can detect your language and convert speech to text using a local model, and where you can use it across the editor experience.
Visual Studio Code highlights improvements to the Markdown editing experience in VS Code, focusing on making it easier to work with Markdown files directly in the editor.
Visual Studio Code shows how to convert existing prompts into reusable “skills” using the Migration feature in VS Code, so teams can standardize and reuse prompt-based workflows more easily.
Visual Studio Code highlights the SynthWave theme extension for VS Code, showing how to give the editor a retro “glow” look and pointing to the extension link for installation.
Visual Studio Code shares a quick tip on using IntelliSense in the integrated terminal to speed up command-line work and reduce typos while you’re working inside VS Code.
Visual Studio Code shares a short tip on teaching GitHub Copilot your project-specific rules using custom instructions, as part of learning agentic development in VS Code.
Visual Studio Code highlights that VS Code Dictation is now built in, showing how developers can speak to VS Code using the new voice dictation integration.
Visual Studio Code shares a quick update that OpenAI reduced pricing for GPT-5.6 Luna and GPT-5.6 Terra, and points developers to try both models directly in VS Code.
Visual Studio Code shares a quick tip for reducing token usage and improving GitHub Copilot results by running a grammar check on your prompt before submitting it in VS Code.
Visual Studio Code highlights three popular dark themes for VS Code—One Dark Pro, Midnight City, and Tokyo Night—prompting developers to compare the look and pick a favorite for their editor setup.
Visual Studio Code shows the different ways to split the integrated terminal, making it easier to work with multiple shells or tasks side-by-side while staying inside the editor.
Visual Studio Code shows how the new Migration feature in VS Code turns existing prompts into reusable skills, focusing on a faster way to organize and reuse prompt-driven workflows inside the editor.
Visual Studio Code shares a short announcement for a new course on using Foundry Toolkit in VS Code to build, test, debug, and deploy AI applications.
Visual Studio Code shares a short clip highlighting a GitHub Copilot-related “did you know?” tip in VS Code, framed as a quick GitHub “hacking” moment for developers.
Visual Studio Code shows how to use Oh My Posh to customize and improve the terminal prompt inside VS Code, with a link to the Oh My Posh project for setup and themes.
Visual Studio Code introduces the VS Code Learn extension, aimed at making it easier to get started with agentic development workflows inside VS Code.
Visual Studio Code shows how to give GitHub Copilot more context by sharing your running website through VS Code’s Integrated Browser, so Copilot can reference what you’re seeing while you work.
Visual Studio Code runs through the five most popular VS Code extensions in 2026 so far, highlighting what developers are installing to improve their day-to-day workflow inside the editor.
Visual Studio Code shares quick tips for using the integrated terminal inside VS Code to speed up common command-line tasks without leaving the editor.
Visual Studio Code shows how to run language models locally in VS Code using the Ollama extension, including configuring custom models, bring-your-own-key providers, and utility model settings, with an emphasis on keeping processing private on your machine.
Visual Studio Code highlights TypeScript 7.0 and its “10x faster” native port, and points developers to a VS Code extension to try the updated TypeScript experience in the editor.
Visual Studio Code shares a short sizzle reel promoting VS Code Learn, a set of free, hands-on courses created by the VS Code team to help developers learn VS Code features and workflows.
Visual Studio Code highlights the CodeSnap extension for VS Code, showing how it helps developers create cleaner, more shareable screenshots of code quickly.
Visual Studio Code shows how VS Code Tasks can help you quickly rerun common project commands by defining them once and triggering them from the editor.
Visual Studio Code introduces VS Code Learn, a hands-on learning hub with short videos, guided exercises, and practical examples aimed at helping developers get more out of the editor, including content that touches on AI, agents, and day-to-day developer productivity.
Visual Studio Code highlights a quick path for moving a project from .NET Framework 4.8 to .NET 10 in VS Code, and points viewers to the AwesomeCopilot repository for related resources.
Visual Studio Code shares a quick set of “top tips” from the engineering team, highlighting practical editor features like subagents, favorite shortcuts, and a few hidden easter eggs, plus a mention of event agent markdown files and GitHub Copilot-related workflows.
Visual Studio Code introduces “bring your own key” support, letting developers use their own model provider API keys with VS Code and GitHub Copilot without signing in, and points to the setup guide for enabling expanded model choice.
Visual Studio Code shows how to use VS Code’s language model system to bring your own AI provider without signing into Copilot, including native providers like Anthropic, custom endpoints, third-party integrations, and running local models offline.
Visual Studio Code shares a quick walkthrough of three MCP servers they use daily in VS Code—GitHub, Playwright, and Microsoft Learn—to extend GitHub Copilot Agent mode for PR review, real-browser testing, and pulling up-to-date documentation as context.
Visual Studio Code highlights new Integrated Browser improvements in VS Code, including saving browser favorites, taking full-page or region screenshots, and using browser content as context for GitHub Copilot and agent workflows.
Visual Studio Code shows how the Mermaid Markdown Features extension renders Mermaid diagrams directly in VS Code, including Markdown Preview, notebook Markdown cells, and VS Code Chat, so teams can keep architecture and workflow diagrams alongside their docs and code.
Visual Studio Code hosts the final Agents League challenge, where experts build business-ready knowledge agents integrated with Microsoft 365 and authored in Copilot Studio, and the audience is sent into a last sprint before the hackathon closes on June 14.
Visual Studio Code hosts an Agents League session where experts demonstrate building reasoning-based AI agents with Microsoft Foundry, focused on solving complex problems and helping participants apply the approach in their hackathon submissions.
Visual Studio Code kicks off the Agents League with a creative app-building battle, where experts demonstrate AI-assisted development using GitHub Copilot and share ideas participants can apply to their own hackathon submissions.
Visual Studio Code hosts a Microsoft Build 2026 live stage session with demos and discussion spanning GitHub Copilot, the Copilot SDK, and VS Code workflows. It touches on agent integration, multi-model verification, security concerns in AI code review, and developer tooling updates shared by the teams building them.
Visual Studio Code hosts a live Microsoft Build session with the GitHub Copilot team, covering agentic development across the Copilot ecosystem. The agenda includes Copilot CLI, building with the GitHub Copilot SDK, and a segment on .NET Aspire alongside Copilot and related tooling.
Visual Studio Code shares a short clip about “Copilot Teaches”, pointing to a longer explanation of how GitHub Copilot customization works in VS Code using concepts like instructions, skills, and hooks.