Microsoft just removed major "friction" from VS Code in its latest weekly update

If you are tired of installing endless extensions just to view basic projects, Microsoft's new built-in tools for Visual ...
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GitHub confirms hackers stole thousands of internal code repositories after employee installed a poisoned VS Code extension

TeamPCP exfiltrated 3,800 internal GitHub repositories after poisoning a VS Code extension. No customer data was affected, the company says.
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code 1.121 Adds Remote Agents, Boosts Claude Code Functionality Again

Visual Studio Code 1.121 focuses on agent workflows, model configuration, terminal behavior and built-in preview features -- and features another update to Claude Code functionality.
Visual Studio Magazine

Python in Visual Studio Code Gets a Start Page

Among the improvements to Python functionality in the open source, cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor is a new start page. That functionality comes with the Python extension in the VS Code ...
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debugging-python-in-visual-studio.md

Visual Studio installed with support for Python workloads. For more information, see Install Python support in Visual Studio. Python code to use with the debugger. If you want to control your Python ...
GitHub

tutorial-working-with-python-in-visual-studio-step-03-interactive-repl.md

Visual Studio opens the Interactive Window for Python under the editor window. The window has the standard >>> Python REPL prompt: :::moniker range="visualstudio ...