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.
Visual Studio Magazine

GitHub Previews Agentic AI in VS Code Copilot

GitHub today announced a raft of improvements to its Copilot AI in the Visual Studio Code editor, including a new "agent mode" in preview that lets developers use the AI technology to write code ...
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 ...
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 ...
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GitHub adds Claude and Codex AI coding agents

GitHub is making Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI’s Codex AI coding agents directly available inside GitHub today. A new public preview adds Claude and Codex to GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio ...