Microsoft updates Visual Studio with cloud agents, Copilot upgrades, and improved debugging tools for modern AI-driven development.

Microsoft has updated Visual Studio 2026 with integrated cloud agents, enabling scalable AI workflows on remote infrastructure. The release expands GitHub Copilot capabilities, adds user-level custom ...

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 ...

Microsoft has rolled out major updates to its Copilot ecosystem, adding cloud-based agents in Visual Studio, AI-powered call delegation in Teams, and expanded agentic AI in Outlook and Power Platform.