TL;DR: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 is available for a one-time payment of $34.97 (regularly $499.99) through May 31. Visual Studio has earned its place as one of the go-to development ...

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Microsoft has officially announced full production support for the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) in Visual Studio 2026, expanding the platform’s capabilities for driver developers and enterprise build ...

MCP (Model Context Protocol) provides a universal standard for connecting LLMs to external data sources and tools, eliminating the need to manually copy-paste context into a chat session and enabling ...

Andy Park, Marvel’s director of visual development, has left the studio after 16 years as part of Disney’s layoffs. Park took to social media to announce his departure. He wrote, “Marvel Studios ...

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As the leader of a software development team, I recently encountered a common yet frustrating issue: the constant struggle to sync code changes among team members. Despite our communication and ...

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The new Visual Studio March Update touts "Build Your Own Custom Agents" so I had to immediately try that out. I pointed the IDE's Copilot Chat at an existing Blazor project and had it generate a ...

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The North Korean threat actors associated with the long-running Contagious Interview campaign have been observed using malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects as lures to deliver a ...

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 ...