Microsoft is signaling a shift in its AI priorities, favoring Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 over OpenAI's GPT-5 models in its flagship developer tool, Visual Studio Code.

Microsoft is adding automatic AI model selection to its Visual Studio Code editor that will automatically pick the best model ...

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

The first preview of Visual Studio 2026, with deeper GitHub Copilot AI integration, is available through Microsoft’s new ...

Microsoft released .NET 10 RC 1 with a go-live license (production supported through Oct. 14, 2025), highlighting updates ...

New look for Visual Studio but the core still runs on the old .Net Framework Microsoft has released a preview of Visual ...

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 ...

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.