Visual Studio April 2026: Cloud Agents Now Run Inside GitHub Copilot

Summary

Microsoft's April 2026 Visual Studio update introduces cloud agent integration directly within GitHub Copilot, allowing developers to offload coding tasks to remote infrastructure for scalable, isolated execution without leaving the IDE. Developers can initiate cloud agent sessions from Copilot's Chat window, with agents proposing changes back as pull requests for human review. The update also delivers general availability for C++ Code Editing Tools (class hierarchy mapping, function call chain