At its core, the Material Icon Theme replaces VS Code’s default file and folder icons with visually appealing, color icons ...

The complete AI functions for VS Code are to become open source. As a first step, Microsoft is releasing the chat extension.

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license.

VS Code shows the changes highlighted in color, as in the diff view. This helps with visual searches. Older commits can now be used for co-pilot chats, for example, to have changes explained.