Microsoft announced two related updates for Visual Studio: support for bringing your own model (BYOM) to Copilot Chat and general availability of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) client in the IDE.

Microsoft is updating how you build Visual Studio extensions, with new APIs and the ability to run extensions outside of the Visual Studio process. Notwithstanding the immense popularity of the Visual ...

Advanced AI usually comes to Microsoft's Visual Studio Code before the company's Visual Studio IDE, due to the architectural differences of a lightweight, open-source-based code editor supplemented by ...