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The April update suppresses Copilot completions while IntelliSense is active, addressing a long-running editor conflict.

Visual Studio has never really been the lightweight option. It's not the tool you open just to tweak a config file or write a ...

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 ...

Preview of new companion app allows developers to run multiple agent sessions in parallel across multiple repos and iterate on human and agent reviews. Visual Studio Code 1.115, the latest release of ...

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