Microsoft highlighted Copilot planning, context visibility, diff review updates and MSVC Build Tools v14.51 in its May Visual Studio update.

A small social media poll from Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen split respondents over whether the IDE should add more database tooling, while the discussion quickly turned to existing SQL project ...

Microsoft has released a preview of Visual Studio 2026, the first major version update since 2021, promising deeper AI integration and a new look and feel.… Visual Studio is the second most popular ...

Microsoft also unveiled the first preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.12, featuring support for the forthcoming .NET 9 development platform. Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 v17.11, an update ...

If you’ve been thinking about upgrading your development environment, this deal makes it a lot easier to justify. Microsoft ...

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Microsoft has released the second preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.14, bringing with it several new features, including improved code completion. The new code completion model has been trained on ...

Thanks to cloud agents, remote coding sessions can now be started from within the IDE, and the C++ code editing tools are generally available.

Testing, debugging, and managing projects usually happen in the same environment, which is why tools like Visual Studio tend to stick around for the long haul. The downside is that the costs can stick ...

VS Code 1.100 adds support for instructions and prompt files for Copilot Chat and speeds up edits in agent mode and in Next Edit Suggestions. Visual Studio Code 1.100, the latest release of ...