Microsoft has introduced the final launch of Visual Studio 2022 model 17.14, an replace of the corporate’s flagship built-in growth setting (IDE) that provides help for agent mode and different AI-assisted growth options from GitHub Copilot.
Released May 13, Visual Studio 2022 model 17.14 could be downloaded from visualstudio.microsoft.com. The 17.14 launch previews GitHub Copilot agent mode to “supercharge” the AI-assisted growth expertise, Microsoft stated. With agent mode, builders chat with Visual Studio utilizing pure language to instruct it to finish multi-step, complicated coding duties autonomously. The agent understands the code base and might repair errors, recommend and execute terminal instructions, and analyze runtime errors till a job is full, Microsoft stated. Agent mode is obtainable in public preview for all customers of Visual Studio 17.14.
Visual Studio 17.14 additionally provides Next Edit Suggestions (NES), whereby GitHub Copilot predicts the following edit within the present file based mostly on earlier edits, and AI-powered doc remark technology for C++ and C# features. The launch additionally provides help for Model Context Protocol (MCP), additionally preview. An open-source protocol created by Anthropic, MCP gives the GitHub Copilot agent with structured entry to information, instruments, and assets.
