Last month, Microsoft finally launched Visual Studio 2026 and .NET 10, following some preview builds. As expected, this is a major release with a lot of focus on AI capabilities, performance boosts, and bug fixes for thousands of issues. With the integrated development environment (IDE) now out for a few weeks, Microsoft has shared all the enhancements it made to the software during November 2025.
For starters, GitHub Cloud Agent is now in preview. This agentic AI workflow can handle delegated tasks in Visual Studio 2026, including code refactoring, UI cleanups, documentation, multi-file updates, and more. In the coming weeks and months, Microsoft plans to enhance this experience further so you can view pull request (PR) links inside the IDE and review the changes made by the agent before you push them, without breaking your development flow. You can enable GitHub Cloud Agent through by clicking the Copilot badge and then navigating to Settings & Options > Coding Agent (Preview). Do note that this requires restarting Visual Studio 2026, along with a solution that is connected to a GitHub repository.
In addition, it is now possible to interact with Copilot from the Visual Studio context menu. This UX surfaces options like Ask Copilot, and Copilot Actions (Explain, Optimize Selection, Generate Comments, Generate Tests, Add to Chat).
Finally, when you"re utilizing All-In-One Search and Copilot detects a better semantic match than the top result, it will recommend that to you with a Did You Mean suggestion. This is very similar to a web search experience where you are suggested better results in case you make a typo in your prompt. The focus is on capturing the intent of the search item rather than performing a lexical match.
Although this round-up will likely be a monthly item moving forward for Visual Studio 2026 (just like it is for Excel and Teams), Microsoft has noted that it will be skipping the month of December due to the upcoming holiday break.