The Future of Visual Studio
summary
Visual Studio now ships monthly, reaches 50 million users, and integrates deep AI: agent mode edits multiple files and iterates until the build succeeds, uses MCP to connect GitHub/Azure/Figma, and lets users bring-your-own API keys for OpenAI/Anthropic/Google models. The profiler agent runs benchmarks, applies edits (Adler32 loop unrolling) and reports a 17% speedup in the demo. New “next” v18 keeps backward-compatible extensions, stores settings as per-repo JSON, and adds 10 built-in color themes.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and milestones
- 2:15Visual Studio fundamentals
- 7:18Accelerating innovation
- 9:01AI and Copilot integration
- 11:48MCP and agentic workflows
- 18:47Coding agent demonstrations
- 20:55Modernizing legacy code
- 24:19The next version of VS
- 28:12IDE design and personalization
- 32:25Profiler agent and conclusion
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