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 ...

Microsoft has released GitHub Copilot for Azure as an extension for Visual Studio 2022. It integrates a set of Azure dev tools within GitHub Copilot Agent Mode. Microsoft has launched a public preview ...

Microsoft has added GitHub Copilot Chat integration into the Azure Migrate application and code assessment extension for Visual Studio. Like GitHub Copilot, this feature will require a subscription.

However, approach with caution: MCP servers are increasingly becoming a new way to hijack systems or launch cyberattacks, research shows. Microsoft has added Model Context Protocol (MCP) support to ...

Latest release of Microsoft’s code editor also adds support for Git worktrees and the ability to checkpoint and restore different states of Copilot chat conversations. The newly released Visual Studio ...