The original AI-powered code completion tool stemming from early OpenAI technology, GitHub Copilot, now comes in a free tier for the Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code, along with other editors.

Coding can be both exhilarating and exhausting. One moment, you’re deep in the flow, solving complex problems, and the next, you’re bogged down by repetitive tasks or hunting for snippets across ...

New Copilot AI features and functionality mark the latest edition of Microsoft's flagship IDE, Visual Studio 2022 v17.13. "Meet GitHub Copilot Free," says a heading in the company's Feb. 11 ...

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GitHub has rolled out agent mode and MCP (Model Context Protocol) support in GitHub Copilot for all Visual Studio Code users. The company is also releasing an open source GitHub MCP server, allowing ...

Microsoft has released a new GitHub Copilot extension in public preview designed to help enterprise .NET developers modernize and migrate legacy applications to Azure. Integrated with Visual Studio ...

What if the tools you’ve relied on for years suddenly became something entirely different? That’s the reality developers are waking up to as Visual Studio Code, once heralded as a lightweight and ...

Microsoft's text editor 'Visual Studio Code' has an extension marketplace, where users can easily install various extensions. A Reddit post pointed out that only Microsoft extensions can use special ...