Abstract: Code smells represent symptoms of poor implementation choices. Previous studies found that these smells make source code more difficult to maintain, possibly also increasing its ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that are advertised as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistants, but also harbor ...

The Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available, allowing agents to be developed and managed directly from the editor. The extension enables software-style workflows for ...

The hackers trick victims into accessing GitHub or GitLab repositories that are opened using Visual Studio Code. Once the repositories are opened in VS Code, the victim is prompted to trust the ...

Visual Studio Code is a desktop source code editor designed for software development on Windows systems. It provides a clean editing environment combined with powerful features that support writing, ...

The Copilot Studio extension lets developers use any VS Code-compatible AI assistant to develop AI agents, then sync with Copilot Studio for testing and iteration. Microsoft is offering a Microsoft ...

The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has disclosed details of new cyber attacks targeting its defense forces with malware known as PLUGGYAPE between October and December 2025. The ...

Before the first planes took off and before the world woke to the attack on Pearl Harbor, a message was sent: “Climb Mount Niitaka.” It wasn’t poetic — it was the final order signaling that diplomacy ...

This project provides a command palette extension for opening Visual Studio solutions and Visual Studio Code workspaces from a single, unified interface. Because the application is first signed by the ...

In this post, we will show you how to create real-time interactive flowcharts for your code using VS Code CodeVisualizer. CodeVisualizer is a free, open-source Visual Studio Code extension that ...

A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...