Best of Visual Studio — June 2025

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   ASP.NET Blog·50w

   Improve Your Productivity with New GitHub Copilot Features for .NET!

   Microsoft has released new GitHub Copilot features for .NET development in Visual Studio 17.14 and VS Code with C# Dev Kit. Key improvements include enhanced context awareness that scans codebases for better suggestions, Microsoft Learn integration for up-to-date responses, automated method implementation through refactoring, on-demand code documentation via hover tooltips, and automatic generation of documentation comments. These features aim to make .NET development more efficient by providing more relevant AI assistance.

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   Visual Studio Blog·48w

   Better Models, Smarter Defaults: Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-4.1, and More Control in Visual Studio

   Visual Studio Copilot now defaults to GPT-4.1 for improved performance and offers expanded model choices including Claude Sonnet 4, Claude Opus 4, OpenAI o3 mini, and Gemini variants. The update introduces sticky model selection, simplified model switching, and a new Copilot Consumptions panel for tracking usage under GitHub's consumptive billing model. Users can monitor premium requests and automatically fall back to standard models when quotas are exceeded.

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   The .NET Tools Blog

   ReSharper, JetBrains' popular .NET productivity tool that has served Visual Studio developers for 20 years, is now expanding to a new development environment as an extension, bringing its code exploration, writing, and improvement capabilities to more developers.

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   Dev Tools·48w

   I built Code Mind Map, an extension for Visual Studio and VS Code that links mind map nodes to code.

   A developer created Code Mind Map, an extension for Visual Studio and VS Code that connects mind map nodes directly to code snippets. Users can select code, press Ctrl+2 twice to add it as a mind map node, then Ctrl+Click to navigate back to the original code location. The tool addresses the common challenge of organizing project knowledge and analyzing large codebases by providing a visual, hierarchical way to bookmark and navigate code sections.

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