Microsoft's Visual Studio dev team has been working on the next release of its flagship IDE, Visual Studio 2022 v17.13, with an emphasis on improving the GitHub Copilot AI-powered coding assistant.

Visual Studio Code 1.136 adds Agent Merge, multi-root Copilot and Claude support, custom Agent backgrounds, and improved session organization.

Mads Kristensen said subagents are coming to Copilot in Visual Studio, posting an image of a Copilot task flow showing a delegated subtask. VS Code already documents subagents as independent AI agents ...

Visual Studio 2026 is no longer a preview or a promise, it is a shipping product that developers can install today. Microsoft is positioning this release as a generational reset for its flagship IDE, ...

Microsoft has outlined several ways in which it improved Visual Studio 2026 in November 2025, including better semantic search options. Last month, Microsoft finally launched Visual Studio 2026 and ...

VS Code 1.100 adds support for instructions and prompt files for Copilot Chat and speeds up edits in agent mode and in Next Edit Suggestions. Visual Studio Code 1.100, the latest release of ...

Microsoft also unveiled the first preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.12, featuring support for the forthcoming .NET 9 development platform. Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 v17.11, an update ...

Make coding easier with Microsoft Visual Studio Professional. If you’re an entrepreneur, you could probably list quite a few job titles. If one of them is developer, let Microso ...

Microsoft has been adding several new diagnostics features to Copilot in Visual Studio for .NET to make the debugging process easier. “The same tools you rely on are now able to keep up with you, ...

Microsoft's June 9 Visual Studio 2026 update shipped three features that, taken together, address a structural problem the June 1 GitHub Copilot billing transition created: the IDE had become the only ...