"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: Get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $29.97 (reg. $499) through Aug. 23 at 11:59 p.m. PT, with ...

Visual Studio 2026 has Fluent UI and ships with 11 tinted themes. Source: Microsoft Dev Blogs Microsoft unveils Visual Studio 2026 with deeper AI integration, faster performance, and a refreshed ...

Of all the programming-related announcements at Build 2024, this is the one that could have the most impact on mainstream users. Microsoft is adding the ability to extend Copilot. Developers using ...

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio has expanded beyond code completion to support the entire development workflow, including code generation, review, and debugging/diagnostics. Setting up agent ...

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 ...

At this year's Build conference, Microsoft unveiled a major expansion of its agent-based AI platform, highlighting new tools to securely build, customize and orchestrate intelligent agents across ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...

The MSVC Build Tools Preview is updated regularly with the latest features and fixes from the MSVC (Microsoft C++) development team. The MSVC team’s updates for August 2026, targeting the Visual ...