Visual Studio Magazine

Visual Studio August Update Adds More Copilot Controls, Git Worktrees

Visual Studio 2026 version 18.9 adds adjustable AI reasoning, organization-wide agents, Git worktrees and integrated submodule management.
Visual Studio Magazine

GitHub Expands Copilot Enterprise Search in Visual Studio and VS Code

GitHub supercharged search for its Copilot Enterprise AI assistant in both Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code so developers can now get results from well beyond local codebases, ...
ADTmag

Microsoft Turns Visual Studio into a Distribution Point for AI Coding Agents

Microsoft is expanding the role of AI agents in Visual Studio, allowing companies to distribute their own custom GitHub Copilot agents across repositories and giving development organizations a new ...

GitHub blames 8-hour outage on autoscaling fail and VS Code retry storm

GitHub has published its account of this week's nearly eight-hour outage, tracing the developer pain to saturated load ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio adds AI-generated Git commits, previews AI chat

Microsoft has made Visual Studio 17.9 generally available and introduced a preview of Visual Studio 17.10. Both bring support for new GitHub Copilot capabilities. Microsoft has made Visual Studio 2022 ...