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In future, Microsoft will publish stable releases of Visual Studio Code weekly instead of monthly.
Malicious extensions that install a cryptominer were released just as the weekend started.
With Visual Studio Code 1.99, GitHub Copilot agent mode is included in VS Code Stable and Next Edit Suggestions is generally available.
Improvements include experimental Hot Reload and boosted error management, debugging, and testing on Razor/Blazor web pages.
VS Code 1.96 allows users to overwrite text instead of inserting it and to automatically add imports when copying and pasting code between JavaScript or TypeScript.
Powered by GitHub Copilot, Copilot Edits proposes code changes across multiple files in a workspace based on the user’s prompts.
September 2024 release of Microsoft’s code editor also introduces the ability to run Python tests with coverage.
Zed, Eclipse Theia IDE, Lite XL, and Cursor all offer some advantages over VS Code, at least for now. Zed and Cursor stand apart.
Microsoft's new all-in-one data-science pack for Python in VS Code gave developers plenty to celebrate this month. Also check out Modin (a drop-in replacement for Pandas), Hy 1.0.0, and Spyder 6.
New extension pack bundles VS Code extensions for Python language support, Jupyter notebooks, data wrangling, and the GitHub Copilot AI-powered programming assistant.
Due for a production release in November, the forthcoming framework emphasizes WebSocket API improvements and updates to the .NET MAUI VS Code extension.
New Profiles editor provides a unified interface for creating new profiles, editing and deleting existing profiles, and importing and exporting profiles.
Microsoft is making its collaboration platform more developer-friendly as a place to host apps and a place to build them.