InfoWorld

Visual Studio previews agent mode for multi-step coding tasks

With agent mode, developers chat with Visual Studio using natural language to instruct it to complete multi-step, complex coding tasks autonomously. The agent understands the code base and can fix ...
Visual Studio Magazine

New Agents Panel Brings Copilot Coding Tasks to Visual Studio and VS Code

GitHub has expanded its Copilot coding agent with a new agents panel, giving Visual Studio and VS Code users a centralized way to launch and track AI-driven coding tasks directly alongside their ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio October update adds Claude coding models

Microsoft has released the October 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14). The new release makes the Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 coding models available in the GitHub Copilot chat ...
Visual Studio Magazine

AI Coding Assistants Encroach on Copilot's Special GitHub Relationship

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. That relationship resulted in ...