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 ...
Macworld

Let AI handle the repetitive stuff — MS Visual Studio makes coding easier for $35

Building across platforms usually means juggling tools and workflows. This version of Visual Studio brings everything into ...
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 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 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Visual Studio 2026 Gives IntelliSense Priority in Longstanding Copilot Completion Clash

The April update suppresses Copilot completions while IntelliSense is active, addressing a long-running editor conflict.

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 is down to $35

Visual Studio has never really been the lightweight option. It's not the tool you open just to tweak a config file or write a ...
XDA Developers on MSN

These VS Code extensions let me ditch three separate apps for notes, tasks, and code

VS Code is no longer just an IDE.