News Copilot Compared: Advanced AI Features in Visual Studio 2022 vs. VS Code By David Ramel 06/18/2025 GitHub Copilot continues to evolve in both Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, offering ...

The Visual Studio Code product itself ships under a standard Microsoft product license, as it has a small percentage of Microsoft-specific customizations. It’s free despite the commercial license.

GitHub Copilot’s upgraded coding agent, now accessible through a new agents panel, lets Visual Studio and VS Code developers offload coding chores to AI and track results across GitHub’s ecosystem.

Microsoft has released the July update of its free source code editor Visual Studio Code 1.103. In this version, it can already use the features of OpenAI's newly released GPT-5 language model in ...