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Visual Studio Code vs VSCodium: What is the real difference?

VSCodium avoids this entire issue. It is a community-driven option for those who don't want the proprietary distribution ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio Marketplace Avoids Decommission

Open source champion Eclipse Foundation is advancing the Open VSX Registry, a vendor-neutral, community-supported alternative to the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace. However, while Microsoft's ...
ZDNet

Microsoft integrates Black Duck open-source tools with Visual Studio

Black Duck Hub is a database and code-checking service. Its database, Black Duck KnowledgeBase, contains data on over 2 million open-source projects and 79,000+ known open-source vulnerabilities.
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GitHub Copilot Chat extension goes open source in VS Code

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code) team has reached a key milestone in its vision to transform VS Code into an open‑source AI editor. On 30 June 2025, the team announced that the GitHub Copilot ...

Glassworm malware returns in third wave of malicious VS Code packages

The Glassworm campaign, which first emerged on the OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio marketplaces in October, is now in its third wave, with 24 new packages added on the two platforms.
InfoWorld

How to run R in Visual Studio Code

Note that GitHub Copilot isn’t optimized for R; the documentation says Copilot works “especially well” for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, C#, and C++. However, Copilot does make R code ...
TechRepublic

How to add Docker support to Visual Studio Code

Integrate Docker support and Microsoft's Visual Studio Code with this brief tutorial from expert Jack Wallen. In a recent TechRepublic video, Jack Wallen showed how to add Docker support to Visual ...