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Feb 4, 2026
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Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio (February)

Rhea Patel
Rhea Patel

After a busy January (catch up here), we're shifting focus to reliability and refinement. This month is about tightening core workflows, improving agent stability, and building on the MCP foundations we've been laying. Agent Mode & Coding Agents Reliability is the priority this month. We're raising the floor on agent-driven scenarios with...

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Feb 3, 2026
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Performance improvements to MEF-based editor productivity extensions

Tina Schrepfer (LI) Amadeus Wieczorek
Tina,
Amadeus

If you use editor productivity extensions for Visual Studio 2026, there's good news—they can now load faster! Extension developers with existing MEF-based editor productivity extensions should read this blog to learn about recent changes and how they might be affected.  We introduced VisualStudio.Extensibility to simplify the creation of Visual ...

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