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 ...

Experimental feature allows users to get a second opinion from a complementary model on the primary agent’s work.

The latest version of Visual Studio Code now includes a full Markdown Editor mode that provides word processor-like WYSIWYG editing capabilities.

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

Visual Studio 18.10 Insiders can connect its new Agent directly to locally running AI models, but my test showed that getting a model into the IDE and getting frontier-model performance from it are ...