Microsoft has eased some licensing requirements for Visual Studio Build Tools (VSBT), which comprises a standalone MSVC compiler, libraries and scripts for C++. The ...

Visual Studio 2022 17.6 brings significant performance, editor, and C++ enhancements, while a version 17.7 preview adds more productivity improvements. Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2022 17.6 IDE is now ...

A new version of Microsoft’s integrated development environment (IDE) goes live today with the release of Visual Studio 2019 and its cousin Visual Studio 2019 for Mac. Visual Studio is in a bit of a ...

Microsoft is expanding GitHub Copilot's deepest Visual Studio integration to C++, giving the AI assistant compiler-backed insight into entire C++ codebases so it can refactor and modify projects ...

Microsoft has updated its Visual Studio 2022 development environment with the October update. It now offers a wider selection of Large Language Models (LLMs) in chat and introduces GitHub Copilot ...

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Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...

Visual Studio 2026 is no longer a preview or a promise, it is a shipping product that developers can install today. Microsoft is positioning this release as a generational reset for its flagship IDE, ...