The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

About three years ago Microsoft released a new source code editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS. This was named Visual Studio Code. It is way lighter IDE than various editions of the legendary Visual ...

Oracle has released JDK (Java Development Kit) 25, the first long term support (LTS) version since JDK 21 two years ago. New ...

There are quite a few popular options for a good IDE, with Visual Studio Code — more commonly known as VS Code — being a favorite among programmers. VS Code offers extensive features and a large ...

Unleash smarter coding with Visual Studio Code’s latest update featuring AI integration, customizable tools, and workflow ...

GitHub has expanded its Copilot coding agent with a new agents panel, giving Visual Studio and VS Code users a centralized way to launch and track AI-driven coding tasks directly alongside their ...

Microsoft announced two related updates for Visual Studio: support for bringing your own model (BYOM) to Copilot Chat and general availability of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) client in the IDE.

The first preview release of Visual Studio 2026 has arrived. As you might expect from a new Microsoft product, the big ...

Although Visual Studio Code is a very useful lightweight code editor, it is actually vanilla Visual Studio that is Microsoft's flagship integrated development environment (IDE). As such, Microsoft ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...