Experimental feature allows users to get a second opinion from a complementary model on the primary agent’s work.
TL;DR: Get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $29.97 (reg. $499) through Aug. 23 at 11:59 p.m. PT, with ...
Microsoft is bringing five more Claude-native capabilities to Azure-hosted deployments, extending a pattern of accommodating Anthropic's models, APIs and agent tooling across Microsoft and GitHub ...
VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and offline models, but with some limits. Microsoft has been pushing hard to make ...
Visual Studio 2026 v18.8 includes built-in Agent Skills created by Microsoft's .NET and Azure teams. Skills provide reusable, task-specific instructions, workflows and guardrails that Copilot loads ...
Microsoft's June 9 Visual Studio 2026 update shipped three features that, taken together, address a structural problem the June 1 GitHub Copilot billing transition created: the IDE had become the only ...
Nine out of ten developers regularly use a coding agent. Claude Code leads the popularity list by a large margin.