A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...

You start by getting the official installer from the Visual Studio Code website. Open your preferred browser on Windows. Go to the Visual Studio Code download page ...

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I noticed that when I'm using the Unity extension for Visual Studio Code, the code suggestions don't seem to have the kind of awareness that would let you know that, for example, a private serialized ...

Treat this as an immediate security incident, CISOs advised; researchers say it’s one of the most sophisticated supply chain attacks they’ve seen, and it’s spreading. A month after a self-propagating ...

"No, VS is Windows only and that isn't going to change," said Microsoft's Mads Kristensen today in a social media post in response to the question that keeps popping up about taking the flagship IDE ...

The Visual Studio Code editor can sometimes encounter issues that leave you with no choice but to reset its settings. Resetting the settings reverts everything back to default, allowing VS Code to ...

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 ...

A new study of integrated development environments (IDEs) like Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, and Cursor has revealed weaknesses in how they handle the extension ...

Microsoft announced that Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code now have a collective 50 million monthly active users (MAUs). “I’m thrilled to share that we’ve hit an incredible milestone together: 50 ...