The August 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 is now out, offering new AI capabilities and even ways to scale back AI ...

Microsoft used the Visual Studio Live! keynote at its Redmond headquarters to unveil the future of its flagship IDE, ...

The company announced that GPT-5 is now integrated into the IDE, and support for MCP is generally available as well.

The latest version, Visual Studio 2022, will remain in mainstream support until January 21, 2027, with extended support going on until January 13, 2032.

Visual Studio now lets you control Copilot completions, hide next edit suggestions, and accept code in smaller parts.

To remain supported, Microsoft emphasizes that users must be on the latest version 16.11 release of Visual Studio 2019. The preview channel of Visual Studio 2019 is also no longer receiving updates.

Microsoft has added Model Context Protocol (MCP) support to Visual Studio, its flagship integrated development environment ...