Microsoft’s latest push to make AI the fabric of the developer experience landed with bold claims and a mixed reception: a new Insiders Channel debut, a purported Visual Studio 2026/18.0 milestone that folds GitHub Copilot into the IDE in deeper, agentic ways, and a feature set tuned for speed...
Visual Studio 2026’s first Insiders build lands as a clear statement: Microsoft intends to make AI the connective tissue of the IDE while simultaneously modernizing Visual Studio’s foundation for the .NET 10 era. At VSLive! San Diego Microsoft unveiled Visual Studio 2026 (internal version 18.0)...
Microsoft has quietly handed developers more control over how much assistance GitHub Copilot asserts in the editor, adding several practical toggles and workflow options in the August 2025 Visual Studio update so that suggestions appear on developers’ terms rather than at every keystroke...
Microsoft’s latest Visual Studio update tightens the reins on GitHub Copilot, giving developers explicit control over when suggestions appear, how much of a suggestion to accept, and whether predictive edits should interrupt their flow—changes that reshape Copilot from an always‑on assistant...
Microsoft has begun rolling out GPT-5 inside Visual Studio via GitHub Copilot, bringing OpenAI’s newest coding model to paid Copilot users and promising faster responses, stronger reasoning on large problems, and clearer, more maintainable code suggestions that can handle end-to-end engineering...
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Microsoft’s July 2025 update to Visual Studio Code, shipped as version 1.103, is the most explicit signal yet that the VS Code team is turning the editor into a platform for AI-driven development workflows — with one of the headline additions being GitHub Copilot chat checkpoints, a preview...
At Microsoft Build 2025, Kedasha Kerr, a GitHub Developer Advocate, showcased the integration of Azure AI Foundry with GitHub Copilot's Agent Mode, illustrating how these tools can significantly streamline the development process.
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