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Visual Studio Code 1.123: Smoother Handoffs for Agent-Assisted Development
VS Code 1.123 improves agent handoffs, browser context, prompt commands, terminal batching, and session feedback across the development loop.
The Coding Harness: Why the Model Matters Less Than You Think
The coding harness assembles context, exposes tools, runs the agent loop, and evaluates behavior. Understanding that layer is central to reliable .NET workflows in VS Code.
VS Code 1.113: Agent Workflows, Chat Customization, and the Thinking Model
VS Code 1.113 brings unified chat customizations, configurable thinking effort, nested subagents, and MCP support to CLI agent workflows.
Long-Distance Next Edit Suggestions Understand Refactoring Patterns
VS Code's next-edit suggestions can look farther across a file to predict related changes. Here is where the feature helps .NET refactors and where it stops.
VS Code 1.128 Makes a Clear Bet: The Agents Window Is Becoming the New Work Surface
VS Code 1.128 turns agent workflows from novelty into daily ergonomics with multi-chat sessions, GA vision support, and deeper host/session controls.
Azure MCP Tools Are Now Baked Into Visual Studio 2022 — No Extension Required
Azure MCP tools ship as part of the Azure development workload in Visual Studio 2022. Over 230 tools, 45 Azure services, zero extensions to install.
VS Code 1.115 — Background Terminal Notifications, SSH Agent Mode, and More
VS Code 1.115 brings background terminal notifications for agents, SSH remote agent hosting, file paste in terminals, and session-aware edit tracking. Here's what matters for .NET developers.