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Visual Studio 2026–The Copilot Profiler Agent

Yes! The new Visual Studio 2026 edition is available in preview (now called Insiders). I'll take some time this week to walk through some of the features I like and maybe some of the rough edges I discover along the way. One feature that is really new and only available inside VS 2026 (at the moment of writing this post) is the new Copilot Profiler agent. The profiler agent should be of assistant in any of the following tasks: Analyzing CPU usage, memory allocations, and runtime behavior Surfacing   bottlenecks in your code Generate new BenchmarkDotNet benchmarks Validate fixes with before/after metrics, all in a smooth guided loop And more… A good introduction of the profiler agent can be found here: But of course, we want to try it ourselves… Hello profiler! I have an existing set of BenchmarkDotNet test that I use to evaluate the performance of some features I’m working on and also to avoid that any change...