Visual Studio Magazine

Visual Studio August Update Adds More Copilot Controls, Git Worktrees

Visual Studio 2026 version 18.9 adds adjustable AI reasoning, organization-wide agents, Git worktrees and integrated submodule management.
ADTmag

Microsoft Turns Visual Studio into a Distribution Point for AI Coding Agents

Microsoft is expanding the role of AI agents in Visual Studio, allowing companies to distribute their own custom GitHub Copilot agents across repositories and giving development organizations a new ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 Ships: 'Meet GitHub Copilot Free'

New Copilot AI features and functionality mark the latest edition of Microsoft's flagship IDE, Visual Studio 2022 v17.13. "Meet GitHub Copilot Free," says a heading in the company's Feb. 11 ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio adds AI-generated Git commits, previews AI chat

Microsoft has made Visual Studio 17.9 generally available and introduced a preview of Visual Studio 17.10. Both bring support for new GitHub Copilot capabilities. Microsoft has made Visual Studio 2022 ...
Neowin

Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio Codespaces, users being migrated to GitHub Codespaces

Microsoft has announced that it is retiring Visual Studio Codespaces - previously Visual Studio Online - and consolidating it into GitHub Codespaces, which is in limited public beta right now. Now, ...
InfoWorld

GitHub Copilot available for Microsoft Visual Studio 2022

AI-driven coding assistant, still in technical preview, has raised questions about the fairness, legitimacy, and legality of its use of freely licensed software. GitHub Copilot, a controversial ...