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Oct 22, 2025
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Introducing Planning in Visual Studio (Public Preview)

Rhea Patel
Rhea Patel

Quick prompts are great for small fixes, but they fall short on big projects. You end up rewriting instructions, tweaking them constantly, and hoping the model stays on track. It gives Copilot a visible, structured path to follow, one that updates as it works and keeps you in control at every step. In Agent Mode, Copilot can now create plans tha...

Artificial IntelligenceSpec Driven DevelopmentPlanning
Sep 17, 2025
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Getting the most out of MCP in Visual Studio with Prompts, Resources, and Sampling

Allie Barry Praveen Sethuraman
Allie,
Praveen

We're excited to announce that Visual Studio now supports MCP prompts, resources, and sampling (with even more coming soon!) to enhance your Copilot experience by bringing in more context from your engineering stack. These powerful new features unlock deeper integrations with your favorite tools and services, making your development workflow more i...

Visual StudioExtensionsGitHub Copilot
Aug 27, 2025
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Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio (September)

Rhea Patel
Rhea Patel

Today, we’re excited to share our public roadmap, which outlines the next steps in evolving Visual Studio with AI-powered agentic experiences. With every month, we aim to deliver smarter, faster, and more intuitive tools that enhance your coding experience. Disclaimer: The items outlined here represent ongoing work for the month. They are not co...

CopilotArtificial IntelligenceRoadmap
Aug 20, 2025
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Bring Your Own Model to Chat in Visual Studio

Rhea Patel Samruddhi Khandale
Rhea,
Samruddhi

We’re excited to announce that you can now bring your own language model into Visual Studio Chat. You can connect API keys from providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google) to access a wider range of models. This makes it easy to test the latest releases, customize workflows, or run on infrastructure you control. What it unlocks ...

Visual StudioCopilotArtificial Intelligence
Aug 19, 2025
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Model Context Protocol (MCP) is Now Generally Available in Visual Studio 🎉

Allie Barry
Allie Barry

We’re excited to announce that MCP support is now GA in Visual Studio—unlocking richer, real-time context from your entire development stack and expanding the power of Agent Mode like never before. Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that makes it easy for AI agents to connect with external tools and services—think of it like HTTP, ...

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May 19, 2025
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Faster .NET Upgrades Powered by GitHub Copilot

McKenna Barlow
McKenna Barlow

Introducing GitHub Copilot app modernization – Upgrade for .NET You probably don’t look forward to the process of modernizing your applications. It can be time consuming, risky, and full of manual toil. Today we’re changing that. We’re thrilled to introduce the public preview of GitHub Copilot app modernization - Upgrade for .NET, an AI-powered...

.NETGitHub CopilotArtificial Intelligence
Mar 11, 2025
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GPT-4o Copilot code completion model available now in Visual Studio public preview

Simona Liao
Simona Liao

We are excited to announce that the new GPT-4o Copilot code completion model is now available for GitHub Copilot users in Visual Studio starting in 17.14 Preview 2! This new model, based on GPT-4o mini, has undergone additional training on over 275,000 high-quality public repositories across more than 30 popular programming languages. As a resu...

GitHub CopilotArtificial IntelligenceGitHub Copilot Completions
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 CopilotCopilotArtificial Intelligence
Feb 3, 2025
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Customize your AI-generated git commit messages

Jessie Houghton
Jessie Houghton

When it comes to collaborative software development, clear and effective communication is key. One area that often gets overlooked is the Git commit message. Poorly crafted suggestions and feedback for the AI-generated commit messages, and now you can add custom prompt instructions! This new capability enables you to tailor commit messages t...

GitHub CopilotCopilotGit
Aug 15, 2024
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Copilot Content Exclusion Now Available in Visual Studio 2022 17.11

Rhea Patel
Rhea Patel

We are excited to announce that Copilot Content Exclusion is now available in Visual Studio 2022 17.11. This feature allows your admins to configure Copilot to ignore certain files in a repository or organization, giving you enterprise control that ensures sensitive information is protected while seamlessly integrating trusted AI for efficient codi...

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