Visual Studio April update adds autonomous cloud agents and a new debugger agent

Microsoft is making Visual Studio more agentic. New tools handle remote coding tasks and analyze live app behavior to find ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Visual Studio 2026 Gives IntelliSense Priority in Longstanding Copilot Completion Clash

The April update suppresses Copilot completions while IntelliSense is active, addressing a long-running editor conflict.
Visual Studio Magazine

VS 2026 Joins VS Code with Integrated Cloud Agent: Assign a Task, Close the IDE, Get a PR

Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions ...
Macworld

Let AI handle the repetitive stuff — MS Visual Studio makes coding easier for $35

Building across platforms usually means juggling tools and workflows. This version of Visual Studio brings everything into ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I switched from VS Code's marketplace to Open VSX, and Microsoft's is the one falling behind

Truly open-source marketplace you can use with VSCodium.
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VS Code Now Stamps GitHub Copilot as Git Commit Co-Author

Visual Studio Code 1.118 now stamps a Copilot co-author trailer on Git commits by default after PR #310226 flipped ...