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Touted as an “AI-native intelligent development environment,” Visual Studio 2026 features performance and user experience improvements in addition to AI-powered debugging, profiling, and more. Visual ...

Microsoft has just released the October 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14). It brings with it a whole bunch of features, including improvements to GitHub Copilot agentic flows and models. The ...

"No, VS is Windows only and that isn't going to change," said Microsoft's Mads Kristensen today in a social media post in response to the question that keeps popping up about taking the flagship IDE ...

TL;DR: For two days only, you can get a lifetime license for Visual Studio Pro for only $15. Writing and testing code can be complex enough without the added friction of limited tools or slow ...

Microsoft today announced the first preview version of Visual Studio 2026, which is available from a new Insiders channel that replaces the old Visual Studio Preview channel. “Visual Studio 2026 ...

The latest Visual Studio 2022 Preview is now available as a native Arm64 application on Windows 11. This Visual Studio version natively supports building and debugging Arm64 apps on ARM-based ...

Although Visual Studio Code is a very useful lightweight code editor, it is actually vanilla Visual Studio that is Microsoft's flagship integrated development environment (IDE). As such, Microsoft ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...