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If you’ve worked with Git submodules for any length of time, you probably have a love-hate relationship with them. They’re genuinely useful for pulling a shared library, an SDK, or common build scripts into your project. But actually working with them usually means tabbing over to a terminal and trying to remember whether it’s git The post Today I will… manage Git Submodules without leaving the IDE appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

If you’ve been looking for a practical way to build Azure skills, Cloud Academy (a QA company) gives Visual Studio subscribers hands-on learning that fits into busy schedules.  Whether you’re new to Azure, expanding your cloud expertise, working towards certifications or preparing for more advanced projects, this benefit helps you learn by doing.  What you’ll find in Cloud Academy  The Cloud Academy benefit gives Visual Studio subscribers a flexible The post Build Azure Skills Faster with Cloud Academy, a Visual Studio Subscriber Benefit appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Not every question deserves the same amount of thought. Renaming a variable isn’t the same as debugging a memory leak, and they don’t need the same level of thinking. So why should your model treat them the same way every time? Starting in Visual Studio 18.9 Insiders 2, it doesn’t have to. Supported models now come with a thinking The post Tell your model when to think harder  appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

There’s a new Agent (Preview) in Copilot Chat, built on the same GitHub Copilot SDK that powers the GitHub Copilot CLI, that gets more done with less back-and-forth. The post Visual Studio July Update — Meet the New Agent, Powered by the GitHub Copilot SDK appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Organizations are increasingly looking for greater control over extensions within development environments. Driven by security, compliance, and internal governance requirements, teams want more visibility into how developers discover and acquire extensions. To address these needs, we’re excited to begin previewing Private Marketplace support in Visual Studio. Private Marketplace for Visual Studio For organizations familiar with The post Visual Studio Administrator? Join our Private Marketplace Preview! appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

You open the model picker, scroll past a dozen options, and pause. How are these models different? Which one should you actually use? And once you’re a few hundred messages deep, how much capacity is even left before things start dropping off? We’ve all been there. These are the kinds of questions Visual Studio now The post Pick, manage, and get the most from your models appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Visual Studio now includes built-in Agent Skills, created by experts from the .NET and Azure teams, to help you better customize your agentic workflow and complete development tasks more efficiently, starting with the 18.8 Release. Agent Skills are reusable capabilities that enable your agent to perform structured tasks more reliably (to learn more about what The post Built-in Agent Skills Bring .NET and Azure Expertise into Visual Studio appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

One of the best parts of a Visual Studio Subscription is discovering benefits that can make your day-to-day development work easier and more cost effective. One benefit that deserves more attention is Azure Dev/Test pricing. In fact, it’s one of the most valuable benefits included with a Visual Studio Subscription.  If you’re building cloud applications, testing new ideas, or maintaining multiple development environments, cloud costs can sometimes The post The Visual Studio Dev/Test Benefit: Freedom to Build, Test, and Experiment in Azure appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

The June update includes a Copilot Usage window refresh with proactive alerts as you approach your limits, MCP servers now get a trust check before they run anything new. The post Visual Studio June Update – Track Your Usage, Trust Your Tools appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

If you’re building and maintaining Visual Studio extensions, you’ve probably ended up with some sort of build and publishing workflow – whether it’s manual, scripted, or stitched together over time. This post is for extension authors who want a simple, repeatable way to build, version, and publish their VSIX files using GitHub Actions. I’m going The post Automating your Visual Studio extension builds with GitHub Actions appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.