Visual Studio Magazine

GitHub Lets Developers Control VS Code AI Agents from Their Phones

New Agent Host functionality lets developers direct agents running on their own machines through GitHub Mobile, while maintaining sessions across VS Code windows and custom clients.
Visual Studio Magazine

GitHub Copilot Lets VS Code Developers Dial AI Suggestions Up or Down

New Low, Medium and High settings control the frequency and size of Copilot's inline suggestions, with Microsoft reporting measurable differences in developer behavior.
Windows Report

Visual Studio October 2026 Update Brings Major Git, Copilot, and Hot Exit Improvements

Microsoft introduces new Visual Studio features, including Git improvements, redesigned Copilot Chat, Hot Exit, and keyboard ...

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Visual Studio's latest update brings several welcome changes, and developers may find one new feature especially useful when ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code enhances diff editor, GitHub interop

With VS Code 1.81, the diff editor includes several new features and bug fixes, and the new diff algorithm is enabled by default. Visual Studio Code 1.81, the latest release of Microsoft’s extensible ...
heise online

GitHub Copilot Free now available in Visual Studio and VS Code

The version management platform GitHub has released Copilot Free for Microsoft's integrated development environment Visual Studio as well as for the free source code editor, Visual Studio Code. The ...