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May 26, 2026
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Visual Studio May Update – Plan, Review, Refine

Mark Downie

There's a particular rhythm to good development work: you think, you try, you check, you adjust. This month's Visual Studio update leans into that rhythm. Whether you're sketching an approach with the Plan agent before touching a single file, reviewing a wave of changes across many files, or fine-tuning the context Copilot has to work with, the May...

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May 21, 2026
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Plan Before You Build: Introducing the Plan agent in Visual Studio

Rachel Kang (SHE/HER)

You ask Copilot to tackle something big, it gets to work, and a dozen file changes later you realize you had a completely different approach in mind. The code isn't wrong... it just isn't what you were going for. Last year, we introduced planning as a feature in Agent mode to help with exactly this. Since then, you’ve told us you wanted more con...

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