Floating windows are possible in Visual Studio Code: editors and selected views can be detached from the main window. In version 1.100, two new modes are now available for floating windows.

Visual Studio Code 1.92 offers the choice of a default browser The source code editor now allows the selection of a default browser and brings new features for pull requests.

The company had been planning to use Visual Studio Code since late 2018, when it sent an internal memo to its employees about the intention to move all development to the new environment.