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Visual Studio May Update Adds Plan Agent, Diff Review Tools

The May update adds a Plan agent for pre-implementation planning. Visual Studio now includes unified multi-file diff review surfaces. MSVC Build Tools v14.51 is available with nine months of servicing ...
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Visual Studio's September Update Has Arrived: Here's What's New

New Profiler Agent uses Copilot to analyze CPU, memory, and .NET allocations and suggest fixes. Copilot App Modernization Agent helps upgrade legacy .NET projects and migrate them to Azure. Markdown ...
XDA Developers

Microsoft will soon start rolling out Visual Studio updates through Windows Update system

Rahul Naskar has years of experience writing news and features related to consumer technology and previously worked at leading tech publications. Beyond his passion for technology, he loves to stay ...
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Visual Studio July Update Brings Copilot Agent and Built-In Skills

Copilot Chat gains an Agent preview built on the GitHub Copilot SDK. Visual Studio adds opt-in .NET and Azure skills tied to installed workloads. Branch context and cross-install C++ toolset discovery ...
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Visual Studio October update adds Claude coding models

Microsoft has released the October 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14). The new release makes the Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 coding models available in the GitHub Copilot chat ...