Microsoft updates Visual Studio Code with shared AI canvases, portable chats, improved Markdown editing, and stronger agent security.

Microsoft is updating how you build Visual Studio extensions, with new APIs and the ability to run extensions outside of the Visual Studio process. Notwithstanding the immense popularity of the Visual ...

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and offline models, but with some limits. Microsoft has been pushing hard to make ...

Visual Studio 18.10 Insiders previews Bring Your Own Model support for Microsoft Foundry, OpenAI, Anthropic and Ollama through the new Agent (Preview). A local Qwen3:4b model running through Ollama ...