Visual Studio July Update Brings Copilot Agent and Built-In Skills
Devs can select Agent (Preview)🤖in Copilot Chat, enable workload-specific .NET and Azure skills, 🛠️ attach branches before checkout🧭 and opt into cross-install MSVC toolset discovery.
Enterprise Solutions for .NET Developers
- VS Code 1.131 Adds Built-In Dictation, Hybrid Markdown Editing and Subagent Status Offline dictation to chat, editors & terminals 🎙️ Running subagents expose their model & active tool call 🤖 Python Environments has reached full Stable rollout 🐍
- Dev Revisits Visual Studio After Nearly a Decade, Gets Lost in AI-Era Completion Maze A dev asks for a little less help please in face of IntelliSense, IntelliCode and GitHub Copilot suggestions. 🤖 Which feature was actually interrupting the code? 💻
- Oracle Leans on VS Code for New AI Dev Tooling Fusion AI Agent Studio and APEX workflows both run through VS Code 🧰 -- more evidence that it's becoming the foundation for modern dev tooling. From extensions to AI IDE forks, its reach keeps growing 🚀
- Speak Your Vibe: VS Code Insiders Talks Up Voice-Driven Development Voice-driven development: 🎙️ Built-in dictation, Voice Mode & text-to-speech dominate the early 1.131 cycle -- a notable shift toward speech as another AI coding control surface. 💻

