Released: Apr 21, 2026

Updates in 25.2.5

Fixes

• Patched a number of features to improve their integration with Visual Studio 2026.
• AiGen - Error occurs when the Azure Open AI gpt-5-nano model is used.
• Scope Cycle - Alt+Down and Alt+Up shortcuts occasionally freeze VS 2026.
• Refactorings - 'Caps+Space' shortcut locks VS 2026.
• Navigation - VS 2026 occasionally hangs when pressing F12 to go to the definition.
• Import Namespaces - Refactoring is not available in VS 2026.
• Spell Checker - DevHub.exe process is consuming excessive memory and CPU...

Released: Feb 27, 2026

Updates in 25.2.4

Features

Test Runner

• Added support for MSTest v4.

AiGen Performance & Intelligence Enhancements

• Performance & Intelligence Enhancements
  • AiGen now more intelligently gathers and optimally packs context before sending it to the Reasoning AI.
  • AiGen now supports smaller code deltas, enabling fast, surgical-precision AI code changes (targeting member signatures, bodies, attributes, XML comments, and individual code blocks within large methods).
• New AiGen Integrations
  • You can now share your...

Released: Dec 18, 2025

Updates in 25.2

Features

• AI Features - AiGen and AiFind now work with more models and providers, supporting gpt-5 as well as Azure Open AI. Also added support for the Responses mode available in some AI models. You can configure these new model settings on the IDE/Cognitive/API Keys option page.
• Visual Studio 2026 - Patched a number of features to improve their integration with Visual Studio 2026.
• Code Formatting added new formatting settings:
  • New options to format collection expressions. You can now define...

Released: Nov 3, 2025

Updates in 25.1.5

Features

• AI Features
  • Now supports the Responses mode available in some AI models. You can configure these new model settings on the IDE/Cognitive/API Keys option page. If you are using an Azure AI deployment in CodeRush, you'll need to revisit this page to set your deployment endpoint.
• Visual Studio 2026 (beta)
  • Patched a number of features to improve their integration with Visual Studio 2026.

Fixes

• Code Formatting
  • The Format Document command hangs Visual Studio 2026.
• Lightbulb Menu
  • Broken...

Released: Sep 15, 2025

Updates in 25.1.4

Features

• AI Features
  • AiGen and AiFind now work with more models and providers, supporting gpt-5 as well as Azure Open AI. You can configure these new model settings on the IDE/Cognitive/API Keys option page.
• Code Formatting - Added new formatting settings:
  • New options to format collection expressions - you can now define wrapping and spacing options for [1, 2, 3] expressions (C# 12).
  • New options to wrap closing paren after parameters and arguments.
• Code Cleanup
  • Updated the list of modifiers...

Released: Jul 2, 2025

Updates in 25.1

Features

AiGen and AiFind

• CodeRush 25.1 introduces AiGen and AiFind - AI-powered tools that help you generate, modify, and navigate code using natural language. These features are built right into CodeRush (and by extension, Visual Studio) and deliver fast, cost-effective AI assistance right inside your editor.

AiFind - Natural Language AI Search

• AiFind brings semantic AI-powered search to Visual Studio. Some examples of prompts that lead to an AiFind search:
  • "I'm looking for all methods that...

Released: May 20, 2025

Updates in 24.2.5

Features

Code Issues

• This release improves analysis of async code patterns, adding new code issues to report situations where code may be missing an intended await:
  • Inside try and using statements, which could cause problems with exception handling and premature object disposal.
  • Inside synchronous code, effectively producing fire-and-forget tasks.

Context Providers

• Added two new context providers [DebugRunMode] and [DebugBreakMode]. You can use them to setup context for keyboard shortcuts...

Released: Feb 12, 2025

Updates in 24.2.4

Features

Organize Members

• Improved handling of initialized fields and properties. Removed the "Skip initialized fields" setting. Instead, Organize Members now actively analyzes dependencies between such members, so that they can be correctly grouped without altering runtime behavior (initialization sequences are preserved for members that depend on other members).
• You can now group record struct and record class types independently (C#).
• You can now group Module types (VB).
• You can now group by...

Released: Dec 12, 2024

Updates in 24.2

Features

Test Runner

• CodeRush can now run xUnit.Net v3 tests.

Voice Support

• Voice to Code - Alternate Input Modes
  • Added alternate input modes using the Alt and Shift keys, which can now be optionally held down while talking to change how the individual spoken words are interpreted.
    • When the Alt key is pressed while dictating comments or strings, CodeRush switches to code-first mode, and will find and emit matching identifiers into the strings or comments you're dictating.
    • Inside dictated...

Released: Oct 22, 2024

Updates in 24.1.5

Fixes

• Test Runner - Run All with Coverage - Parameters defined in the .runsettings file are not being used.
• Static Code Analysis - Code Issues and Spell Checker don't work in Visual Studio 17.12 Preview.
• Refactorings - Reverse Boolean throws NullReferenceException after VS is updated to version 17.11.x.
• Code Declare
  • NullReferenceException is thrown in certain cases.
  • The '"DeclareProvider" encountered an error and has been disabled' notification occasionally appears.
  • Declare Method throws...