Microsoft has introduced the final launch of Visible Studio 2022 model 17.14, an replace of the corporate’s flagship built-in growth surroundings (IDE) that provides assist for agent mode and different AI-assisted growth options from GitHub Copilot.
Launched Could 13, Visible 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 mentioned. With agent mode, builders chat with Visible 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, counsel and execute terminal instructions, and analyze runtime errors till a job is full, Microsoft mentioned. Agent mode is out there in public preview for all customers of Visible Studio 17.14.
Visible Studio 17.14 additionally provides Subsequent Edit Strategies (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# capabilities. The discharge additionally provides assist for Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP), additionally preview. An open-source protocol created by Anthropic, MCP offers the GitHub Copilot agent with structured entry to information, instruments, and assets.
