Visual Studio Code, the popular development text editor and IDE, has rolled out its big July 2025 release. The v1.103 update adds new Git and terminal integrations, better language support, and more.

Visual Studio 2012 is now able to connect to any Git host, including TFS, CodePlex, GitHub and Stash, using an extension available today as Update 2 preview.

The Git Experience is available as the default source control experience in Visual Studio 2019 as of version 16.8.

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.

Microsoft is bringing its Azure-aware Copilot experience to Visual Studio 2022. The preview extension lets developers use ...

The company announced that GPT-5 is now integrated into the IDE, and support for MCP is generally available as well.

GitHub Copilot is an OpenAI-powered Visual Studio Code extension that can suggest lines of code or entire functions as you type.