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7 little-known VS Code extensions that prove it's more than just an IDE

Like many developers, I used to think of VS Code primarily as a slick code editor – great for writing, debugging, and managing projects. It’s a fantastic tool, no doubt, but my perspective shifted ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Google Extends Free Use of VS Code AI Assistant Until Nov. 8

Developers who use Google's Gemini Code Assist tool in Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor were this month informed the tool would be free to use until Nov. 8, 2024, an extension of a previous July ...
InfoWorld

How to run R in Visual Studio Code

Note that GitHub Copilot isn’t optimized for R; the documentation says Copilot works “especially well” for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, C#, and C++. However, Copilot does make R code ...
Visual Studio Magazine

New in VS Code: Voice Dictation, Improved Copilot AI

Microsoft continued to enhance speech functionality in its Visual Studio Code editor with a new accessibility tool that lets developers dictate directly into the editor. The voice dictation feature in ...
InfoWorld

What is Visual Studio Code? Microsoft’s extensible code editor

Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on your desktop and on the web and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS. It comes with ...