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VS 2026 Joins VS Code with Integrated Cloud Agent: Assign a Task, Close the IDE, Get a PR

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 ...
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A lifetime Visual Studio Professional 2026 license for $42.97 is hard to miss

TL;DR: Visual Studio Professional 2026 is $42.97 (reg. $499.99) here for a single-user lifetime license on one supported Windows machine. Some products need a long explanation. Microsoft's Visual ...
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Microsoft Expands AI Coding Reach with GitHub Copilot for Eclipse IDE

Microsoft has launched a public preview of its AI-powered coding assistant, GitHub Copilot for Eclipse, further expanding its AI ecosystem into the widely used open-source Eclipse IDE. The move marks ...
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Microsoft Keeps Adding VS 2026 MCP Functionality to VS 2022, but Not Much Else

Microsoft's new move to ship Azure MCP tools inside Visual Studio 2022 adds to a small but notable pattern of selected Visual Studio 2026-era functionality later showing up in the older IDE, led by a ...