Blog Archive

2026

August

• Introducing the Agent Host for persistent, portable agent sessions

July

• MAI-Code-1-Flash: early results from real developer workflows
• How Prompt Tuning Improved GPT-5.5 in VS Code

June

• Iterating faster with TypeScript 7
• What 50,000 Runs of a 5-Line Eval Taught Us
• Use your own language model key in VS Code
• Improving token efficiency for GitHub Copilot in VS Code

May

• The Coding Harness Behind GitHub Copilot in VS Code

March

• How VS Code Builds with AI
• Making agents practical for real-world development

February

• Building Long-Distance Next Edit Suggestions
• Your Home for Multi-Agent Development

January

• Giving Agents a Visual Voice: MCP Apps Support in VS Code
• Building docfind: Fast Client-Side Search with Rust and WebAssembly

2025

December

• Introducing the VS Code Insiders Podcast

November

• Introducing the Visual Studio Code Private Marketplace: Your Team's Secure, Curated Extension Hub 🎉
• Open Source AI Editor: Second Milestone
• A Unified Experience for all Coding Agents

October

• Expanding Model Choice in VS Code with Bring Your Own Key

September

• Introducing auto model selection (preview)

August

• VS Code Dev Days – Join an event near you to learn about AI-assisted development

July

• Command GitHub's Coding Agent from VS Code

June

• Open Source AI Editor: First Milestone
• The Complete MCP Experience: Full Specification Support in VS Code

May

• Enhance productivity with AI + Remote Dev
• VS Code: Open Source AI Editor
• Beyond the tools, adding MCP in VS Code

April

• Agent mode: available to all users and supports MCP

March

• Context is all you need: Better AI results with custom instructions

February

• Introducing GitHub Copilot agent mode (preview)
• Copilot Next Edit Suggestions (preview)

2024

December

• Announcing a free GitHub Copilot for VS Code

November

• Introducing GitHub Copilot for Azure (preview)
• Introducing Copilot Edits (preview)

June

• GitHub Copilot Extensions are all you need
• Using WebAssembly for Extension Development - Part Two

May

• Using WebAssembly for Extension Development

April

• Your Ultimate Guide to VS Code Day 2024

2023

November

• Pursuit of wicked smartness in VS Code

July

• Shrinking VS Code with name mangling

June

• Run WebAssemblies in VS Code for the Web

April

• VS Code Day: An event for an editor?

March

• Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot

2022

December

• Remote Development Even Better

November

• Migrating VS Code to Process Sandboxing

October

• VS Code Community Discussions for Extension Authors

September

• Custom Dev Container Features

August

• Introducing the Markdown Language Server

July

• The Visual Studio Code Server

May

• The dev container CLI

April

• Using Containers to move from Local to Remote Development

March

• The problem with tutorials

2021

November

• Notebooks, Visual Studio Code style

October

• vscode.dev(!)
• Webview UI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code

September

• Bracket pair colorization 10,000x faster

August

• The Coming of Age of Notebooks

July

• Workspace Trust

June

• Remote Repositories
• Visual Studio Code at Build 2021

February

• Resolving extension issues with bisect

2020

December

• Learning with VS Code on Chromebooks

July

• Development Containers in Education: A Guide for Instructors
• Using Dev Containers in WSL 2

June

• The next phase of the Go experience

May

• Visual Studio Code at Build 2020
• Introducing GitHub Issues Integration

March

• Using Docker in WSL 2

February

• Custom Data Format: Evolving HTML and CSS language features
• Improving CI Build Times

2019

October

• Inspecting Containers with VS Code
• Remote SSH: Tips and Tricks

September

• WSL 2 with Visual Studio Code

July

• Remote SSH with Visual Studio Code

May

• Strict null checking Visual Studio Code
• Remote Development with VS Code

February

• The Language Server Index Format (LSIF)

2018

December

• First look at a rich code navigation experience

November

• Event-Stream Package Security Update

September

• Visual Studio Code using Azure Pipelines
• GitHub Pull Requests in Visual Studio Code

August

• New home for the Debug Adapter Protocol

July

• Introducing Logpoints and auto-attach

May

• Visual Studio Live Share Public Preview

April

• Bing-powered settings search in VS Code

March

• Text Buffer Reimplementation

2017

December

• What's new for Chrome debugging

November

• Visual Studio Code at Connect(); 2017
• Introducing Visual Studio Live Share

October

• The Icon Journey
• Integrated Terminal Performance Improvements

September

• Using VS Code to Debug Java Applications

August

• Emmet 2.0 in Visual Studio Code

June

• Fresh Paint - Give VS Code a New Look

May

• Build 2017 Demo

April

• Sublime Text Extension Roundup

March

• Extension Packs

February

• Extensions using CodeLens
• Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting

January

• Node.js Development with Visual Studio Code and Azure

2016

December

• Customize VS Code Extension Roundup

November

• Hot Exit Comes to Insiders
• Creating a Formatter Extension
• 1.7 Rollback Incident Report

October

• JavaScript Extensions Part 2

September

• JavaScript Extensions Part 1
• File and Folder Icons in VS Code!

August

• iOS Web Debugging on Windows and Mac
• Goodbye User Voice, Hello GitHub Reactions!
• Announcing Intro Videos
• Extensions Roundup - Fun with Git

June

• A Common Protocol for Languages

May

• Evolution of the Insiders Build
• April 2016 Release
• Extensions Roundup

April

• Visual Studio Code 1.0!

March

• VS Code Extensions
• February 2016 Recovery Release
• February 2016 Release

February

• Introducing Chrome Debugging for VS Code
• Introducing the Insiders Build