This hands-on build shows how Agent Mode in Visual Studio 2026 -- Insiders now, stable soon --can create and operationalize a custom Copilot skill that automates feature-parity tracking with practical ...

The new Visual Studio March Update touts "Build Your Own Custom Agents" so I had to immediately try that out. I pointed the IDE's Copilot Chat at an existing Blazor project and had it generate a ...

Microsoft Copilot Studio made it easy to create a first agent from a plain-language description, but SharePoint-backed knowledge required extra connection setup. A SharePoint-hosted Excel workbook did ...

Microsoft has expanded Copilot’s capabilities in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to perform multi-step, in-app actions, aiming to streamline document, spreadsheet, and presentation workflows. The update, ...

Microsoft has expanded Copilot’s capabilities in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with a new Agent Mode that can execute multi-step, in-app actions, supported by improved AI models and Work IQ context ...

Last year, Microsoft introduced the concept of agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Microsoft even allowed enterprise users to create their own AI agents using Copilot Studio. Since then, Microsoft has ...

Anyone with a Microsoft 365 account can use new AI agents in Copilot Chat to jump-start Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents ...

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...

Thanks to cloud agents, remote coding sessions can now be started from within the IDE, and the C++ code editing tools are generally available.