Microsoft's Visual Studio dev team has been working on the next release of its flagship IDE, Visual Studio 2022 v17.13, with an emphasis on improving the GitHub Copilot AI-powered coding assistant.

Mads Kristensen said subagents are coming to Copilot in Visual Studio, posting an image of a Copilot task flow showing a delegated subtask. VS Code already documents subagents as independent AI agents ...

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Microsoft also unveiled the first preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.12, featuring support for the forthcoming .NET 9 development platform. Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 v17.11, an update ...

Microsoft has been adding several new diagnostics features to Copilot in Visual Studio for .NET to make the debugging process easier. “The same tools you rely on are now able to keep up with you, ...

VS Code 1.100 adds support for instructions and prompt files for Copilot Chat and speeds up edits in agent mode and in Next Edit Suggestions. Visual Studio Code 1.100, the latest release of ...

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