📼 Rewatch VS Code Live at MS Build 2026

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  • Visual Studio Code Server

    Architecture We want to provide a unified VS Code experience no matter how you use the editor, whether it's local or remote, in the desktop or in the browser. Access to the VS Code Server is built in to the existing code CLI. The CLI establishes a tunnel between a VS Code client and your remote machine.

  • What is a VS Code workspace?

    Learn about Visual Studio Code workspaces What is a VS Code workspace? A Visual Studio Code workspace is the collection of one or more folders that are opened in a VS Code window (instance). In most cases, you will have a single folder opened as the workspace. However, depending on your development workflow, you can include more than one folder, using an advanced configuration called Multi ...

  • UX Guidelines | Visual Studio Code Extension API

    UX Guidelines These guidelines cover the best practices for creating extensions that seamlessly integrate with VS Code's native interface and patterns. In these guidelines, you can expect to find: An outline of VS Code's overall UI architecture and elements Recommendations and examples for UI contributed by an extension Links to relevant guides and samples Before diving into the details, it's ...

  • VS Code Remote Development

    GitHub Codespaces GitHub Codespaces provides remote development environments that are managed for you. You can configure and create a development environment hosted in the cloud, which is spun up and available when you need it. Questions or feedback See Tips and Tricks or the FAQ. Search on Stack Overflow. Add a feature request or report a problem.

  • Supporting Remote Development and GitHub Codespaces

    Supporting Remote Development and GitHub Codespaces Visual Studio Code Remote Development allows you to transparently interact with source code and runtime environments sitting on other machines (whether virtual or physical). GitHub Codespaces is a service that expands these capabilities with managed cloud-hosted environments that are accessible from both VS Code and a browser-based editor. To ...

  • Set up a context engineering flow in VS Code

    Set up a context engineering flow in VS Code This guide shows you how to set up a context engineering workflow in VS Code using custom instructions, custom agents, and prompt files. Context engineering is a systematic approach to providing AI agents with targeted project information to improve the quality and accuracy of generated code. By curating essential project context through custom ...

  • Agents - Visual Studio Code

    Agents An agent is an AI system that autonomously plans and executes coding tasks. You give the agent a high-level goal, and it breaks the goal down into steps, executes those steps with tools, and self-corrects when it hits errors. This article explains the core architecture of agents: the agent loop, subagents, memory, and planning. To learn where agents run and which harness powers them ...

  • Making agents practical for real-world development

    Making agents practical for real-world development March 5, 2026 by VS Code Team, @code Agents are taking on more complex and longer-running development tasks. With the February 2026 release (1.110), we're making those workflows more practical inside Visual Studio Code by giving you greater control over how agents behave, integrate into your tools, and retain project context across sessions ...

  • A Common Protocol for Languages - Visual Studio Code

    This architecture allows for VS Code to interact with multiple language servers, each of which can be implemented in any language (independent of the language the tool was implemented in), and support a variety of features, as long as it utilizes the common JSON-based protocol.

  • Visual Studio Code 1.129

    Welcome to the 1.129 release of Visual Studio Code. This release brings a dedicated agent host, a new editor panel in the Agents window, running commands with !, and a preview of the modern UI. The agent host: Run agent sessions in a dedicated process and connect to them from multiple windows. New editor panel in the Agents window (Experimental): Review agent-generated files and diffs in a ...