A review of five non-Copilot AI coding assistants available in the Visual Studio Marketplace that support Visual Studio 2026 and exceed 100,000 installs.

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Visual Studio is Microsoft's popular cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE), which recently received a bunch of AI capabilities through Visual Studio 2026. Historically, the IDE has ...

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Have you ever wondered if your go-to tools might be holding you back? For millions of developers, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is the undisputed champion of code editors, celebrated for its ...

Touted as an “AI-native intelligent development environment,” Visual Studio 2026 features performance and user experience improvements in addition to AI-powered debugging, profiling, and more. Visual ...

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When it comes to new Echo speakers, Amazon rarely shows something that will appeal to customers who crave premium sound quality. The last time it did, it debuted the Echo Studio, which could handle ...

"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 first preview of Visual Studio 2026, with deeper GitHub Copilot AI integration, is available through Microsoft’s new Insiders channel. Microsoft has released its first preview of the Visual Studio ...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2026 Arrives With ‘AI Woven Into Workflow’ Your email has been sent First major visual studio upgrade in five years AI, performance, and ...

Although Visual Studio Code is a very useful lightweight code editor, it is actually vanilla Visual Studio that is Microsoft's flagship integrated development environment (IDE). As such, Microsoft ...