Visual Studio Code has emerged as the go-to remote development tool in many areas far outside the Microsoft-centric developer ecosystem.

While the Remote Extensions already enabled to code "remotely" using a local VS Code frontend, that requires dealing with SSH or HTTPS configuration, which admittedly is not entirely desirable.

This week, along with announcing the regular monthly update to Visual Studio Code (now at v1.69), Microsoft added a surprise: a private preview of VS Code Server, serving up the backend functionality ...

The server currently requires the Editor Preview Policy for Copilot in VS Code and Visual Studio. It does not support JetBrains, Xcode, and Eclipse IDEs, which still rely on local MCP servers.