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Keeping JavaScript/TypeScript projects up-to-date can be a challenge, especially when it’s time to upgrade a bunch of npm packages or adopt the latest frameworks. We’ve heard from many JS/TS developers that modernizing an older app (upgrading dependencies, fixing breaking changes, etc.) is often tedious and time-consuming. To help with this, we’re ...

Managing containers can be one of the most repetitive parts of modern development. Between remembering CLI commands, switching contexts, and digging through logs, it’s easy to lose focus on the actual code you’re building. The latest release of the VS Code Container Tools extension changes that by putting Copilot directly into your workflow - so yo...

How I built a full-featured podcast analytics dashboard with GitHub Copilot without writing a single line of code myself.

Discover and save the best GitHub Copilot chat modes, instructions, and prompts right from Copilot Chat using the new Awesome Copilot MCP Server—install with Docker, search, preview, and commit in one flow.

OpenAI announced GPT-5 last week in "GPT-5 and the new era of work". Working with OpenAI, we rolled out GPT-5 support the day it launched, making sure you can use and build with it and integrate it into your applications immediately. We've got you covered with a dev-focused rundown: GPT-5 availability, new capabilities, and quick-start steps. An...

We've been talking a lot about the Model Context Protocol (MCP) lately, including recent blog posts and sessions at Microsoft Build. In this post, I'd like to share some top tips for how you can use MCP servers we've been building to improve your developer productivity. What's the experience like? If you've never used an MCP server, imagine cha...

In today's fast-paced digital world, keeping the Visual Studio Marketplace secure and trustworthy is extremely important. We know how crucial it is to protect your extensions, so we're always working on new ways to keep things safe. We'd like to share an update on the existing safeguards and upcoming investments that ensure VS Marketplace remain...