Content by Mark Downie (4)

Mark Downie walks through the May Visual Studio update, focusing on new GitHub Copilot workflows (Plan agent, skills management, context window visibility, and multi-file diff review) plus a toolchain refresh with MSVC Build Tools v14.51 and its C++ improvements.

Mark Downie covers the April Visual Studio 2026 update, focusing on GitHub Copilot’s new cloud agent workflow, user-level custom agents, and a Debugger Agent that validates fixes against real runtime behavior, plus improvements to C++ agent tools, IntelliSense vs Copilot completion priority, and configurable Copilot shortcuts.

Mark Downie walks through the Visual Studio March update features that let teams customize GitHub Copilot with repo-based custom agents, reusable agent skills, and a new language-aware find_symbol tool, plus Copilot-assisted profiling and NuGet vulnerability fixes inside the IDE.

Mark Downie details the February 2026 Visual Studio update, highlighting GitHub Copilot-powered AI features, smarter test workflows, and productivity improvements for .NET and C++ development.