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"The newer AI-enabled editors like Claude Code and Cursor are attracting interest from developers already using the industry standard IDE, VS Code."
08/01/2025
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Microsoft's top developers are taking deep dives into tech ranging from AI apps to .NET MAUI at next week's Visual Studio Live! dev conference in Redmond, with live commentary from the company's Visual Studio Toolbox video team for some Tuesday sessions.
07/31/2025
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The tool provides automated code fixes, predefined migration tasks, and recommendations for Azure services, accelerating enterprise cloud modernization.
07/28/2025
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Along with a new default model, a new Consumptions panel in the IDE helps developers monitor their usage of the various models, paired with UI to help easily switch among models.
06/26/2025
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Agent mode, MCP, next edit suggestions, and more -- GitHub Copilot is getting smarter in both VS and VS Code. Here's a side-by-side look at what developers get in each IDE.
06/18/2025
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Agent mode, now in public preview for Visual Studio 17.14, marks a major step forward for AI-assisted development. Unlike previous Copilot features, agent mode can autonomously plan, edit, iterate, and invoke trusted tools-completing complex coding tasks from a single natural language prompt.
05/13/2025
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"What MCP server would be helpful to use with Copilot in Visual Studio? I want to write one."
05/08/2025
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Preview 3 features next edit suggestions -- or tab, tab, tab coding -- following previous previews of GPT-4o code completions and assorted Copilot enhancements.
04/22/2025
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GitHub chose Microsoft's 50th anniversary to highlight a bevy of Copilot enhancements that further the practice of "vibe coding," where AI does all the drudgery according to human supervision.
04/07/2025
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Microsoft had a great thing going when it had GitHub Copilot all to itself in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code thanks to its ownership of GitHub, but that's eroding.
04/07/2025
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Unsurprisingly, GitHub Copilot resources are front-and-center in Microsoft's new Visual Studio Hub, a one-stop-shop for all things concerning your favorite IDE.
04/02/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of neural network quantile regression. The goal of a quantile regression problem is to predict a single numeric value with an assurance such as, "The predicted y value is 0.6789 and there's roughly a 90% chance the prediction will be greater than or equal to the true y value."
03/17/2025
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Microsoft's Mads Kristensen took to social media to ask Visual Studio developers to share their favorite prompts to get GitHub Copilot AI to improve their code.
03/14/2025
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Things are happening quickly in the Microsoft-centric AI dev space, with the company previewing new AI features in Visual Studio 2022 ranging from a new .NET AI template to GPT-4o Copilot Code Completion.
03/12/2025
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Some developers complained that advanced AI models come sooner to VS Code than Visual Studio, but the new Claude Sonnet 3.7 model is now available in IDE with a paid GitHub Copilot account and a simple settings tweak in GitHub.
03/05/2025
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New GitHub Copilot AI features range from AI-enhanced feature search to edits across files, new shortcuts and expansion of slash commands, along with much more.
02/12/2025
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Microsoft's Visual Studio dev team has been working on the next release of its flagship IDE, Visual Studio 2022 v17.13, with an emphasis on improving the GitHub Copilot AI-powered coding assistant.
01/27/2025
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In an IDE AI update, this week we see JetBrains introducing a new coding agent called Junie just as Microsoft unveiled a free tier for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio.
01/24/2025
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In a larger-than-normal Patch Tuesday, Microsoft warned of a "critical" vulnerability in Visual Studio that should be fixed immediately if automatic patching isn't enabled, ironically caused by coding errors.
01/17/2025
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Microsoft removed waitlist restrictions for some of its most advanced GenAI tech, Copilot Workspace, recently made available as a technical preview.
01/13/2025
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They work in GitHub.com, the Visual Studio IDE and VS Code, where developers can access various services, perform actions and generate files without leaving those dev environments.
01/08/2025
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The free plan restricts the number of completions, chat requests and access to AI models, being suitable for occasional users and small projects.
12/18/2024
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No matter what, some systems simply won't divulge exactly what in the current conversation caused them to balk, simply pointing to vague policies and generic guidance.
12/09/2024
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At this week's Microsoft Ignite conference, the Visual Studio team showed off a future AI-powered IDE that will leverage GitHub Copilot for legacy app .NET upgrades, along with several more cutting-edge features.
11/22/2024
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The brand-new Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 lets devs specify the AI model they want to use with the baked-in GitHub Copilot, but some are clamoring for more options, such as the latest/greatest Claude 3.5 Sonnet model from Anthropic that is available in VS Code.
11/20/2024