Microsoft updates Visual Studio Code with chat cost tracking and multi-agent chats

Free AI in IDEs is shifting to paid models. The latest VS Code update brings transparent cost tracking and multi-chat ...
InfoWorld

Making Windows a developer platform, again

Microsoft is delivering tools to quickly configure Windows PCs as workstations for Windows and Linux development.
InfoWorld

Using Visual Studio Code’s ‘air-gapped’ AI model mode

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code 1.125 Adds Copilot Spend Meter After Billing Shock

VS Code 1.125 adds in-editor visibility into additional Copilot budget usage as GitHub's AI-credit billing model continues to draw developer scrutiny.
Visual Studio Magazine

Using Local AI to Cut Copilot Usage-Based Billing Shock

After being gobsmacked by the new billing plan using almost all my monthly credits in one or two days, I tried pushing some Copilot-style coding work onto local models in VS Code. What I found was ...
GitHub

Python tools for Visual Studio

Prior to Visual Studio 2017, Python support was released as a standalone extension. We are no longer actively developing these versions, but if you are unable to upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 yet, you ...
GitHub

quickstart-05-python-visual-studio-open-folder.md

In this quickstart, you follow guided steps to run Python code in Visual Studio 2019 and later without having to create a Visual Studio project. Visual Studio makes it easy to open and run existing ...