Windows Report on MSN

Visual Studio Code now lets you use AI agents without GitHub

Visual Studio Code 1.133 removes mandatory GitHub sign-in for Agents and adds easier AI model switching and sticky chat prompts.
Visual Studio Magazine

Visual Studio July Update Brings Copilot Agent and Built-In Skills

Microsoft's July release adds a Copilot Chat agent preview, workload-specific skills, shared instructions, branch context and C++ build controls.
Macworld on MSN

Lifetime access to Visual Studio Pro 2026 is only $30

Get Visual Studio Pro for life on sale for $29.97 (reg. $499.99) through August 23. Visual Studio Pro is an extremely popular IDE, but it’s also expensive to license. If you don’t want to pay ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Dev Revisits Visual Studio After Nearly a Decade, Gets Lost in AI-Era Completion Maze

A hobby coder's rough return to Visual Studio highlights how IntelliSense, IntelliCode and GitHub Copilot have created several overlapping layers of code completion -- along with settings intended to ...
Mashable

$45 gets you Microsoft Visual Studio Pro 2026 and a premium coding bundle

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