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Nov 18, 2025
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Spend Less Time Upgrading, More Time Coding in Visual Studio 2026

Jason Chlus

In the past, moving to the next major version of Visual Studio could take hours, sometimes days, to recreate your dev environment the way you like it. Visual Studio 2026 makes it easier than ever to stay current with the latest productivity features, performance improvements, and security fixes all without disrupting your flow. With the new Visual ...

CopilotVisual Studio 2026Modernization
Nov 12, 2025
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Introducing Copilot auto model selection (preview)

Rhea,
Nhu

Faster responses, a lower chance of rate limiting, and 10% off premium requests for paid users - auto picks the best available model for each request based on current capacity and performance. With auto, you don't need to choose a specific model. Copilot automatically selects the best one for your task. Auto model selection in Chat is rolling out i...

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Nov 5, 2025
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Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio (November)

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...

CopilotGitHubArtificial Intelligence
Oct 3, 2025
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Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio (October)

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...

GitHub CopilotCopilotChat
Sep 17, 2025
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Getting the most out of MCP in Visual Studio with Prompts, Resources, and Sampling

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

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 IntelligenceModels
Aug 26, 2025
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The Visual Studio August Update is here – smarter AI, better debugging, and more control

Mads Kristensen

The August 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) is now available, and it’s all about helping developers stay focused, productive, and in control. Whether you're building games, tuning performance, or exploring AI, this release brings meaningful improvements that make everyday development smoother and smarter. GPT-5 support now available...

CopilotC++Models
Aug 20, 2025
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Bring Your Own Model to Chat in Visual Studio

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

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, ...

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

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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