| title | What's new in Visual Studio docs | ||
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| description | Discover recent changes in the Visual Studio documentation, including updated articles about getting started, the IDE, and deployment. | ||
| ms.date | 08/31/2026 | ||
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| author | RoseHJM | ||
| ms.author | rosemalcolm | ||
| ms.subservice | general-ide | ||
| ms.topic | whats-new |
Welcome to what's new in Visual Studio docs. The following sections provide details on the previous three months of new and updated content.
Updated articles
- VSIX Color Editor - Clarify theme-color editing entry points, override precedence, and extension testing with customized tokens.
- Visual Studio Theme Color Tokens - Clarify live token customization, per-theme overrides, customizable surfaces, and shared override-file naming.
Updated articles
- Use code snippets in Visual Studio - Restructure guidance for finding, inserting, customizing, troubleshooting, and safely reviewing code snippets.
- Manage chat context in GitHub Copilot Chat - Clarify where context-window usage indicators appear across Visual Studio versions and chat surfaces.
- Customize chat responses - Add organization-level custom-instruction behavior, review, and opt-out guidance.
- Use custom agents in GitHub Copilot - Add organization-level custom-agent discovery, inspection, availability, and configuration guidance.
- GitHub Copilot usage and models - Explain AI Credit calculation, plan limits, usage alerts, and the distinction between plan and context-window usage.
Updated articles
- Change waves - Document MSBuild 18.9/18.10 change waves and how to restart persistent build processes after changing feature-wave settings.
- Common MSBuild Project Properties - Add the
DeterministicTimestampproperty and clarify deterministic-build behavior. - MSBuild Server - Explain .NET 11 default enablement, node reuse, disabling, fallback conditions, and diagnostics for MSBuild Server.
New articles
- Microsoft.CodeCoverage.Console telemetry - Describe code-coverage telemetry, collected data, first-run disclosure, and opt-out settings.
Learn how to contribute by following the links under "Get involved" in the what's new landing page.
New articles
- Debug with Copilot Prompts - Add prompt techniques for reproducing, diagnosing, instrumenting, and verifying bugs with Debugger Agent
Updated articles
- Show and hide symbol nodes beneath files in Solution Explorer
- Configure IntelliSense Options for C and C++ - Add EditorConfig controls for C++ include completion and refresh IntelliSense guidance
- Improve custom-agent tool-group reset guidance, workarounds, diagnostics, and contextual links
- Developer Community data privacy - Disclose that MIEngine logs might be collected with a Visual Studio problem report
- Use Agent Skills with GitHub Copilot - Add Insiders-only skill creation, workspace and personal scopes, and specification-based generation
- Copilot Next Edit Suggestions - Clarify settings paths, nearby and extended-range suggestions, and display controls
Updated articles
- Obtaining Build Logs with MSBuild - Explain binary-log contents and potential performance overhead
Updated articles
- Configure unit tests with a .runsettings file - Add command-line run-setting overrides
- VSTest.Console.exe command-line options - Modernize options, diagnostics, exit codes, filtering, and environment guidance
The following people contributed to the Visual Studio docs during this period. Thank you! Learn how to contribute by following the links under "Get involved" in the what's new landing page.
Updated articles
- Supported Code Changes (C# and Visual Basic) - Clarify Hot Reload support
Updated articles
- Keyboard shortcuts - Add Git Blame and search updates
- Visual Studio search - Enhance search documentation
- Use MCP Servers - Clarify MCP server chat setup steps
Updated articles
- Applying administrator updates - Clarify .vsconfig install guidance
- Installing Visual Studio - Clarify settings sharing in side-by-side installations
Updated articles
- Develop JavaScript code without solutions or projects - Update project opening guidance.
- Unit testing JavaScript and TypeScript - Updates for TypeScript 7 SDK
Updated articles
- General MSBuild project properties - Clarify MSB3821 messaging
Updated articles
- Add color emoji documentation support
The following people contributed to the Visual Studio docs during this period. Thank you! Learn how to contribute by following the links under "Get involved" in the what's new landing page.
- JohanSmarius - JohanSmarius
