GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — March 2026 Update Shipped

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GitHub shipped the March 2026 monthly update for Copilot in Visual Studio on April 2, continuing its steady cadence of IDE integration improvements. The update lands amid intensifying competition for developer mindshare between GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and emerging open-source alternatives like AMD Lemonade — the AI coding tools market is fragmenting fast.