So you've finally been plucked off the GitHub Copilot chat waitlist. Now what? The eagerly awaited coding assistant/chat integration-- Copilot meets ChatGPT -- in Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio ...

Visual Studio 2026 is no longer a preview or a promise, it is a shipping product that developers can install today. Microsoft is positioning this release as a generational reset for its flagship IDE, ...

The January 2026 update has arrived.

Microsoft outlines new AI reliability, agentic coding, and Copilot improvements coming to Visual Studio 2026, with a focus on ...

A five-year-old Visual Studio feature request for automatic IDE updates is finally getting enacted by Microsoft amid a lot of initial developer pushback, seemingly misplaced. It was June 7, 2019, when ...

GitHub Copilot is an AI chatbot that enables you to write code more efficiently. However, many users have reported that the GitHub Copilot does not work in Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code. This ...

Microsoft has claimed that changing keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio 2026 is a "high-stakes juggling act", in which even telemetry isn't enough. Visual Studio is the integrated development ...

Note that GitHub Copilot isn’t optimized for R; the documentation says Copilot works “especially well” for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, C#, and C++. However, Copilot does make R code ...

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...