Microsoft announced two related updates for Visual Studio: support for bringing your own model (BYOM) to Copilot Chat and general availability of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) client in the IDE.

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Latest VS Code release improves AI agent integration with backing for Model Context Protocol server prompts, resources, sampling, and authorization. Visual Studio Code 1.101, aka the May 2025 version ...

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Latest release of Microsoft’s code editor also adds support for Git worktrees and the ability to checkpoint and restore different states of Copilot chat conversations. The newly released Visual Studio ...