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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 ...

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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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Jun 25, 2025
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Better Models, Smarter Defaults: Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-4.1, and More Control in Visual Studio

Rhea Patel Jui Hanamshet
Rhea,
Jui

We’re excited to share some major improvements to the Copilot experience in Visual Studio, including smarter default models, more choices, and easier ways to manage your usage. Smarter default model Copilot in Visual Studio now uses GPT-4.1 as the default model (previously 4o). In our testing, it delivers significantly better performance—faster r...

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Jun 17, 2025
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Agent mode is now generally available with MCP support

Rhea Patel Filisha Shah Allie Barry
Rhea,
Filisha,
Allie

Copilot agent mode is the next evolution in AI-assisted development—and it's now generally available in the Visual Studio June update. Agent mode turns GitHub Copilot into an autonomous pair programmer capable of handling multi-step development tasks from end to end. It builds a plan, executes it, adapts along the way, and loops through tasks un...

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Jun 9, 2025
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Next edit suggestions available in Visual Studio

Simona Liao
Simona Liao

GitHub Copilot code completions, or gray text, are specialized in autocompleting unfinished code or providing helpful template code. In reality, coding activities are more diverse than writing new code. What if Copilot could better assist your coding not only with code generation, but your code editing activities as well? We are excited to annou...

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Apr 23, 2025
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Effortless adjustments with an adaptive paste

Leah Tran
Leah Tran

Find yourself needing to adjust pasted code to actually work in your project? Visual Studio 2022 introduces the capability to adapt your pasted code with Copilot to reduce the time you spend on making tedious changes. Streamline manual code modifications with adaptive paste When you're copying and pasting code, the process often comes with ex...

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Apr 16, 2025
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GitHub Copilot Highlights in Visual Studio 17.14 Preview 3 (Available Now)

Katie Savage
Katie Savage

Visual Studio 17.14 Preview 3 is now available! The GitHub Copilot experience in Visual Studio is continuously updated to provide the latest advancements in AI-assisted development. The following features and improvements have been recently released in Visual Studio version 17.14 Preview 3. (Remember, preview versions of Visual Studio can be...

Copilot
Mar 26, 2025
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Debugging with the AI-powered IEnumerable visualizer

Junyu Wang
Junyu Wang

Are you tired of wrestling with complex LINQ queries during debugging? Visual Studio 2022 has introduced powerful new improvement, powered by AI, to simplify your workflow with its editable expression feature in the IEnumerable Visualizer. These added functionalities aim to make debugging more intuitive and efficient, helping you write and refine L...

CopilotDebugging
Mar 17, 2025
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Introducing automatic documentation comment generation in Visual Studio

Sinem Akinci Allie Barry
Sinem,
Allie

We are excited to announce that Copilot is now automatically integrated into Visual Studio’s editor to help you generate doc comments for functions. This new feature aims to streamline your documentation process and enhance your coding experience. To access these updates, you will need a GitHub Copilot subscription. If you don’t already have Git...

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Feb 27, 2025
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Catch issues before you commit to Git

Jessie Houghton
Jessie Houghton

Discovering issues with code changes after committing changes can be frustrating. Fortunately, Visual Studio offers a new feature that helps you catch potential problems early, improving your code quality.   Visual Studio now includes a feature powered by GitHub Copilot that lets you review your local code changes before committing t...

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