AI-Assisted .NET Development with GitHub Copilot and Coding Agents
How .NET teams use GitHub Copilot, coding agents, custom instructions and MCP servers, plus review, security and modernization guidance for 2026.
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How .NET teams use GitHub Copilot, coding agents, custom instructions and MCP servers, plus review, security and modernization guidance for 2026.
GitHub's Copilot desktop app reached general availability on June 17, 2026, giving developers one place to run parallel AI agent sessions in isolated worktrees.
GitHub made the Copilot SDK generally available on June 2, 2026, letting .NET, TypeScript, Python and Go apps embed Copilot's agent runtime via a stable API.
On June 30, 2025, Microsoft released the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license, exposing its agent mode, prompts and telemetry.