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

Microsoft's Mads Kristensen said subagents are 'coming soon' to Copilot in Visual Studio, while VS Code already documents subagent support across context isolation, custom agents, parallel execution ...

VS Code 1.118 adds remote Copilot control, enterprise AI restrictions, and smarter caching while improving developer ...

Microsoft Copilot’s visibility has grown through its integration with Windows and Microsoft 365, but new data shows it is not translating that awareness into regular use. Only 21% of AI users engage ...

Coding can be both exhilarating and exhausting. One moment, you’re deep in the flow, solving complex problems, and the next, you’re bogged down by repetitive tasks or hunting for snippets across ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code 1.118 has drawn sharp criticism for automatically adding a “Co-Authored-by: Copilot” tag to Git commits by default, even for some users not actively using Copilot. The ...

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

GitHub Copilot testing for .NET in Visual Studio 2026 v18.3 can generate tests for the xUnit, NUnit, and MSTest test frameworks. Microsoft has made GitHub Copilot testing for .NET, a new capability in ...

Business and enterprise users can now connect their own API keys to use LLMs via OpenRouter, Ollama, Google, OpenAI, and more in VS Code Chat.

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 ...