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

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One IDE, a lot less tab-switching.

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In the new release, developers can experimentally dictate in VS Code without a speech extension and gain deeper insights into ...

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 provides tools to turn a slightly unreasonable idea and a blinking cursor into functional software.

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