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.

Resources for using the popular distributed source code control and collaboration tools Git and Mercurial on Windows.

Explore the impact of AI tools like GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code and what it means for developers navigating a changing landscape.

Visual Studio Code now supports discovery for nested Git repositories and improves autoscrolling, among other features.

GitHub’s open-source Spec Kit formalizes spec-driven development for AI coding agents by providing a CLI, templates, and prompts that move work through specification, plan, tasks, and implementation, ...

Copilot Chat, a feature of GitHub's gen AI coding tool Copilot that lets devs ask natural language questions about code, is now generally available.

The Visual Studio Code product itself ships under a standard Microsoft product license, as it has a small percentage of Microsoft-specific customizations. It’s free despite the commercial license.