The text editor is the most critical tool in a programmer's arsenal, acting as the daily workbench, primary interface, and ...

Back in the day it was assumed by writers that they needed to file their work with the Library of Congress to prove copyright. Not so. But if you want to prove your authorship of open source code and ...

From simple shortcuts to expert-level configuration changes, here are 10 ways to get the most from Microsoft’s open source programming editor. Even without the oodles of extensions that make Visual ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding ...

Microsoft has released a new version of Visual Studio Code (VS Code), its hugely popular open-source code editor for Linux, macOS and Windows, which its creator, Microsoft technical fellow Erich Gamma ...

The Internal Revenue Service has released to the public the vast majority of the code used to develop its Direct File program, theoretically allowing anyone to build their own versions of the software ...

According to Microsoft, the decision to open source GitHub Copilot Chat stems from a growing demand for transparency in how AI-assisted developer tools work -- particularly around prompt engineering, ...