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

VS 2026 Joins VS Code with Integrated Cloud Agent: Assign a Task, Close the IDE, Get a PR

Visual Studio 2026 now surfaces a "Cloud" option in the Copilot Chat agent picker, bringing it in line with VS Code, which has offered cloud agent delegation for longer. The cloud agent runs on GitHub ...
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 ...
The Windows Club

GitHub Copilot not working in Visual Studio [Fix]

GitHub Copilot is an AI chatbot that enables you to write code more efficiently. However, many users have reported that the GitHub Copilot does not work in Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code. This ...
VentureBeat

GitHub: Over 80% of repository contributions come from outside the U.S.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More GitHub’s annual Octoverse report is out today. It found that Microsoft’s ...