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Visual Studio Code now lets you use AI agents without GitHub

Visual Studio Code 1.133 removes mandatory GitHub sign-in for Agents and adds easier AI model switching and sticky chat ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Copilot Compared: Advanced AI Features in Visual Studio 2022 vs. VS Code

GitHub Copilot continues to evolve in both Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, offering developers increasingly intelligent, context-aware tools that go far beyond basic autocomplete. The latest ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Visual Studio 2026 Gives Copilot Built-In Skills -- and Makes Them Prove Their Worth

Visual Studio 2026 v18.8 includes built-in Agent Skills created by Microsoft's .NET and Azure teams. Skills provide reusable, task-specific instructions, workflows and guardrails that Copilot loads ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code adds agent development extension

The Copilot Studio extension lets developers use any VS Code-compatible AI assistant to develop AI agents, then sync with Copilot Studio for testing and iteration. Microsoft is offering a Microsoft ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio previews agent mode for multi-step coding tasks

GitHub Copilot agent mode in Visual Studio 2022 17.14 can create apps from scratch, refactor code across multiple files, write and run tests, and apply code changes iteratively, Microsoft said.
Redmond

GitHub Copilot Extension for Visual Studio

Microsoft has released a new GitHub Copilot extension in public preview designed to help enterprise .NET developers modernize and migrate legacy applications to Azure. Integrated with Visual Studio ...
Neowin

Microsoft brings Copilot for Azure to Visual Studio

Microsoft has released GitHub Copilot for Azure as an extension for Visual Studio 2022. It integrates a set of Azure dev tools within GitHub Copilot Agent Mode. Microsoft has launched a public preview ...