Visual Studio Magazine

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

Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions ...
Windows Report

Visual Studio 2026 April Update Focuses on Cloud Agents and AI Workflows

Microsoft updates Visual Studio with cloud agents, Copilot upgrades, and improved debugging tools for modern AI-driven development.

Visual Studio April update adds autonomous cloud agents and a new debugger agent

Microsoft is making Visual Studio more agentic. New tools handle remote coding tasks and analyze live app behavior to find ...

Microsoft made Copilot a co-author on every VS Code project, reverted after developers revolted

A recent pull request effectively turned Copilot into a "co-author" for every programming project created in Visual Studio ...
ZDNet

Microsoft to developers: Say goodbye to cloud-based dev environment Visual Studio Codespaces

Microsoft has decided to end Visual Studio Codespaces, the rebranded version of Visual Studio Online, and instead will merge it with GitHub's take on the same product. Visual Studio Codespaces ...