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Visual Studio Code highlights what’s new in VS Code v1.142, including interactive canvases for agent workflows, chat handoffs that keep context, and new Markdown editing capabilities, with a link to the full weekly update notes.
Visual Studio Code shows how to keep momentum while working with agents by highlighting text to ask follow-up questions in a side chat with its own context, or quoting selected text directly into your current chat for an immediate response.
Visual Studio Code shows how the Agents window can create and manage a pull request end-to-end, including drafting the PR title and description, tracking CI checks, monitoring reviews, resolving conflicts, keeping the branch in sync, and merging automatically with configurable control.
Visual Studio Code shares a short video about adding Halloween-themed styling to VS Code, focusing on customizing the editor’s look and feel with themes.
Visual Studio Code introduces “Blobby” as the new VS Code Pet and shows how to enable it from GitHub Copilot Chat using the /vscode-pet command.
Visual Studio Code shows how to use the Thunder Client extension to send API requests and view responses directly inside VS Code, keeping API testing alongside your code while you build and debug your app.
Visual Studio Code shares five VS Code keyboard shortcuts focused on faster text selection, covering quick ways to select lines, words, matches, and columns while editing code.
Visual Studio Code highlights the Debug Visualizer extension for VS Code, showing how it can visualize data structures while debugging so you can watch algorithms evolve as your program runs.
Visual Studio Code highlights how the Prettier extension simplifies consistent code formatting directly in VS Code, making it easier to keep files clean and standardized while you work.
Visual Studio Code shows how to customize the Agents window using new background support, focusing on personalizing the AI/agent experience inside the editor.
Visual Studio Code shows how to connect your own Azure-hosted AI models to GitHub Copilot in VS Code using Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), so teams can control which models are available in Copilot and pick the right model for different coding tasks.
Visual Studio Code announces a new “VS Code pet” coding companion that you can trigger from GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code using the /vscode-pet command, and invites the community to submit name ideas during a one-week window.
Visual Studio Code highlights how to get a new set of file icons in VS Code quickly, pointing viewers to the Catppuccin icon theme link for a fast editor refresh.
Visual Studio Code announces “MCP Live” (September 9, 9 AM PT), a live event with experts from Microsoft, GitHub, Anthropic, Okta, Prefect, and Amazon focused on updates across the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem.
Visual Studio Code highlights Emmet, a built-in VS Code feature that speeds up writing HTML (and related markup) using short abbreviations and expansions.
Visual Studio Code shows how to use the Command Palette to navigate faster in VS Code, including opening recent files, jumping to symbols in the current file, grouping symbols by type, and searching for symbols across the entire workspace.
Visual Studio Code shares a trailer for “The Story of VS Code,” a documentary-style look at how VS Code evolved from early web editor experiments into a widely used open-source editor and extension ecosystem, and how the team is adapting as AI changes what a code editor can be.
Visual Studio Code announces MCP Live (September 9) and invites developers to register to hear updates and learn what’s new across the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem.
Visual Studio Code shares a quick tip focused on staying in the editor flow by creating new files quickly while you work.
Visual Studio Code shares a quick tip on adjusting editor and terminal font sizes independently, so you can make text larger or smaller without zooming the entire VS Code interface.
Visual Studio Code shows how to use VS Code’s Test Explorer to quickly filter tests, locate a failing test from CI, debug the failure, inspect results, and rerun the test without leaving the editor.
Visual Studio Code shows how to manage the AI models available in VS Code, including GitHub Copilot models, local models, and bring-your-own-key providers, using quick show/hide and pin controls to keep the model list focused on what you actually use.
Visual Studio Code shares a quick tip on using GitHub Copilot in VS Code to generate a correct launch.json by analyzing package.json, so you can run and debug scripts using the built-in debugger without manually remembering configuration syntax.
Visual Studio Code shows how the Outline view helps you navigate code faster by giving a structured list of symbols in the current file, so you can jump directly to classes, functions, variables, and other definitions without scrolling.
Visual Studio Code highlights an “auto-reload” tip aimed at speeding up the edit-refresh loop when working on web content like HTML.
Visual Studio Code highlights the Mobile Canvas extension, which lets developers control and interact with Android and iOS apps directly from within VS Code.
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.