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Feb 24, 2025
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Claude 3.7 Now Available in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio

Rhea Patel
Rhea Patel

The world of AI is evolving at a breathtaking pace, and today brings an exciting milestone for developers and tech enthusiasts alike. Anthropic’s newest release, Claude 3.7, is now available directly within GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio 2022 17.13, heralding a new era of seamlessly integrated, advanced AI coding assistance. This new Sonnet model...

GitHub CopilotCopilotAnthropic
Feb 24, 2025
2

Leverage vision in Copilot Chat

Jessie Houghton
Jessie Houghton

Now, in the preview channel, you can attach images in GitHub Copilot chat to help you illustrate your ideas effectively and get the best responses.  Imagine working on a UI development task where describing a design or layout through text just doesn't cut it. Or perhaps you're debugging an issue and need to share a screenshot of an error sta...

GitHub CopilotCopilotGitHub Copilot Chat
Feb 20, 2025
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Unlocking More Power: Tool Calling in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio

Rhea Patel
Rhea Patel

Have you ever been frustrated when Copilot doesn’t understand you? While it can’t read your mind, we’ve been working hard to make your coding experience smoother. Previously, Copilot in Visual Studio could look at files in your repository, but you needed to specify the context of your code manually. We understand this wasn’t the most intuitive e...

GitHub CopilotCopilotContext
Feb 19, 2025
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Introducing Code Referencing for GitHub Copilot Completions in Visual Studio

Simona Liao
Simona Liao

When GitHub Copilot completions (or “gray text”) pop up on your screen, have you ever wondered where does the completions come from and worried about if it matches with public code leading to license issues? If you have, we are introducing code referencing to support you and provide more transparency! We are excited to announce that code referen...

GitHub CopilotArtificial IntelligenceCopilot
Feb 18, 2025
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VisualStudio.Extensibility: Tagger support and updates to settings

Tina Schrepfer (LI)
Tina Schrepfer (LI)

We continue to invest in the VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK to allow users like you to create extensions that run faster and smoother than ever before! VisualStudio.Extensibility helps you build extensions that run outside the main Visual Studio IDE process for improved performance, reliability, and installation without restarting Visual Studio. Ad...

vsixvisualstudio.extensibility
Feb 13, 2025
3

New restrictions on package loading

Ryan Molden
Ryan Molden

As Visual Studio transitions its core packages and services to an async loading/retrieval model, we've identified bugs in both the initial async implementation and the existing synchronous package loading mechanism. While most of these bug fixes have been transparent to extenders, one requires attention due to changed constraints. This post high...

vsixvssdk
Feb 12, 2025
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First preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.14

Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen

We are pleased to announce the release of Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 Preview 1, marking the initial preview of our next update to Visual Studio. This update prioritizes delivering exceptional developer experiences, with an emphasis on stability and security, as well as AI enhancements. Download the preview and see the full list of enhancements in th...

Previewsecurity
Feb 11, 2025
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Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 is Now Available!

Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen

We are excited to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2022 v17.13. This update focuses on stability and security, along with continuous improvements for all developers using Visual Studio. Based on your feature requests, several new tools and enhancements have been added to this release. This update includes improvements for developer...

Debugging and DiagnosticsAzureGitHub Copilot
Feb 10, 2025
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VisualStudio.Extensibility: Managing .NET runtime versions

Tina Schrepfer (LI)
Tina Schrepfer (LI)

We continue to invest in the VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK to allow developers like you to create extensions that run faster and smoother than ever before! VisualStudio.Extensibility helps you build extensions that run outside the main Visual Studio IDE process for improved performance and reliability, and that can be installed without the need to...

.NETvsixvisualstudio.extensibility
Feb 6, 2025
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HTTP File updates for Request Variables and more

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

Many users have requested adding support for Request Variables in HTTP files in Visual Studio. With Request Variables, you can send an HTTP request and then use data from the response, or request, in any subsequent request that is sent from the HTTP file. We have also added support for a shared environment, $shared, which enables you to share varia...