Microsoft charges $99.99 per month for a Visual Studio license — get it for life here for $35

Same tools, but now you can finally stop renting them ...
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Visual Studio May Update Adds Plan Agent, Diff Review Tools

Microsoft highlighted Copilot planning, context visibility, diff review updates and MSVC Build Tools v14.51 in its May Visual Studio update.
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C++ Joins C# in Visual Studio's Deep Copilot Tier

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 ...
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C++ extension for Visual Studio Code hits version 1.0

Microsoft has announced the first generally available release of the C++ extension for Visual Studio Code, which includes support for Linux on ARM and ARM64, rich code formatting settings, and more.