{"id":254706,"date":"2025-10-30T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/?p=254706"},"modified":"2025-11-04T09:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:21:45","slug":"visual-studio-october-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/visual-studio-october-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio October Update \u2013 new models, memories, planning, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

The October 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) is now available. In this month, we are bringing you improvements to model choices and agentic flows.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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New Models<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

We now have\u00a0<\/span>Claude Sonnet 4.5 <\/span><\/a>\u00a0and Claude Haiku 4.5 <\/span>available in the chat window.\u00a0This means\u00a0the latest innovations for driving your agentic workflows\u00a0is\u00a0right at your fingertips.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Memories<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

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For Copilot to work effectively for your unique team and repository, it needs to learn about your project and\u00a0team\u00a0best practices. Copilot memories enable Copilot to understand and apply your project’s specific coding standards, making it project-aware and consistent across sessions.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How Copilot memories work\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Memories use intelligent detection to understand your team’s preferences as\u00a0you\u00a0prompt in the chat. That means, as\u00a0you\u00a0prompt how you normally would, Copilot is looking for instances where you correct its behavior, explicitly\u00a0indicate\u00a0a standard, or ask it to remember something. When detected,\u00a0you’ll\u00a0see a confirmation nudge to save the preference. Copilot will then categorize the preference into one of three files:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n