TL;DR: Visual Studio Pro 2026 is on sale for $29.97 (reg. $499.99), a one-time license for Microsoft’s full IDE, no ...

Visual Studio 2026 version 18.9 adds adjustable AI reasoning, organization-wide agents, Git worktrees and integrated submodule management.

Visual Studio Magazine readers have selected their favorite third-party tools, components and services across 43 categories in the 2026 Reader's Choice Awards.

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Working in their free time, two Australian software developers are creating a software plug-in to tie Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System into the open-source Eclipse environment. David Lemphers, a ...

Developers petition for Visual Studio beta 3 and product delay to fix bugs. Microsoft says "no" and adds another significant feature. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting ...

Coding is time-consuming, even for professionals. If you're just starting out, it can be daunting to learn and frustrating to find and correct your mistakes. A simple fix is to change where you ...

Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 brings improvements in formatted output, vectorization, and diagnostics, CMake debugger support, and nearly 4x faster conditional breakpoints for C++. Microsoft has rolled ...

Good development software usually requires a subscription. Microsoft Visual Studio Pro is no exception, but that’s not the only way to get it. If you don’t want to pay monthly for your IDE, you can ...

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 ...