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Nov 14, 2025
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Azure MCP Server Now Built-In with Visual Studio 2026: A New Era for Agentic Workflows

Yun Jung Choi
Yun Jung Choi

Managing cloud resources often means juggling multiple tools, writing custom scripts, and switching contexts between your IDE and cloud management portals. These extra steps slow development and make it harder to build intelligent, secure applications efficiently. We’re excited to announce that Azure MCP Server (Model Context Protocol) tools are...

AzureVisual Studio 2026MCP
Sep 30, 2025
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Visual Studio September Update – profiler agent, app modernization, and more

Simona Liao
Simona Liao

The September 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) is now available. In this month, we are bringing you a fully integrated and game-changing agentic AI experience, from code generation to modernization, profiling, and code reviews.   Profiler Agent We’ve heard the feedback loud and clear developers love the Profiler Agent. So, we’re br...

GitHub CopilotMCPModernization
Sep 17, 2025
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Getting the most out of MCP in Visual Studio with Prompts, Resources, and Sampling

Allie Barry Praveen Sethuraman
Allie,
Praveen

We're excited to announce that Visual Studio now supports MCP prompts, resources, and sampling (with even more coming soon!) to enhance your Copilot experience by bringing in more context from your engineering stack. These powerful new features unlock deeper integrations with your favorite tools and services, making your development workflow more i...

Visual StudioExtensionsGitHub Copilot
Aug 26, 2025
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The Visual Studio August Update is here – smarter AI, better debugging, and more control

Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen

The August 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) is now available, and it’s all about helping developers stay focused, productive, and in control. Whether you're building games, tuning performance, or exploring AI, this release brings meaningful improvements that make everyday development smoother and smarter. GPT-5 support now available...

C++CopilotMCP
Aug 25, 2025
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GitHub Copilot for Azure (Preview) Launches in Visual Studio 2022 with Azure MCP Support

Yun Jung Choi
Yun Jung Choi

The GitHub Copilot for Azure extension is now in Public Preview for Visual Studio 2022 (17.14+). It brings a curated set of Azure developer tools—exposed through the Azure MCP server—directly into GitHub Copilot Agent Mode in Visual Studio. The extension automatically installs and manages the Azure MCP server, so you can query resources, diagnose i...

AzureVisual Studio 2022GitHub Copilot
Aug 19, 2025
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Model Context Protocol (MCP) is Now Generally Available in Visual Studio 🎉

Allie Barry
Allie Barry

We’re excited to announce that MCP support is now GA in Visual Studio—unlocking richer, real-time context from your entire development stack and expanding the power of Agent Mode like never before. Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that makes it easy for AI agents to connect with external tools and services—think of it like HTTP, ...

Visual StudioGitHub CopilotCopilot
Jun 17, 2025
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Agent mode is now generally available with MCP support

Rhea Patel Filisha Shah Allie Barry
Rhea,
Filisha,
Allie

Copilot agent mode is the next evolution in AI-assisted development—and it's now generally available in the Visual Studio June update. Agent mode turns GitHub Copilot into an autonomous pair programmer capable of handling multi-step development tasks from end to end. It builds a plan, executes it, adapts along the way, and loops through tasks un...

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