Java for Visual Studio Code now gets SonarLint 'spellchecker' tool, while the Python extension gets a new debugger.

The Visual Studio Code team is going all in on Python. It hired the developer of the code editor's most popular Python extension, took over the project as its own and is hiring more Python coders to ...

Microsoft plans to extend IntelliSense code analysis for Python to tools beyond Visual Studio, using its Python Language Server. IntelliSense provides autocompletions for variables, functions, and ...

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Open Source, Python and Visual Studio Code Dominate in GitHub Student Survey By Dian Schaffhauser 12/07/20 Fledgling developers were more likely to contribute to open source coding projects this year ...

Microsoft has announced Pylance, a new language server for Python aimed to help programmers write better Python code and improve IntelliSense and Visual Studio Code support for the language ...

The August 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 is now out, offering new AI capabilities and even ways to scale back AI ...

Visual Studio Code 1.97 brings Copilot Edits and movable palette The command palette can now be moved and new AI functions are available. Publishers can be defined as trustworthy for extensions.

The March 2020 update to Microsoft's wildly popular Python extension for Visual Studio Code focused on improving quality via bug fixes, but it did introduce a new debugger.

Visual Studio 2019 goes live with C++, Python shared editing Microsoft's venerable IDE receives its biannual update.