Microsoft supercharges Visual Studio Code 1.116 with native AI and deep agent debugging

Stop hunting for extensions. Visual Studio Code 1.116 is here, baking GitHub Copilot directly into the core and giving you ...
Windows Report

Visual Studio Code Adds Built-In Copilot Chat and Agent Debug Logs

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code version 1.116, introducing a set of AI-focused improvements that refine developer workflows and make Copilot available out of the box.
Visual Studio Magazine

OpenClaw Gets a Microsoft 365 Champion While VS Code Tooling Stays Nascent

Omar Shahine's new Microsoft role focused on bringing OpenClaw and personal agents to Microsoft 365 adds weight to the workplace-assistant story for the open-source AI framework, even as its current ...

Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue

Visual Studio 2026 18.5 arrives with two headline changes – a smarter code suggestion system and an AI-powered debugger. Yet ...