Microsoft is working on a new update mechanism for its flagship integrated development environment (IDE), Visual Studio. The company wants to start updating it via Windows Update. Did you know that ...

Although Microsoft offers Visual Studio Code as a lightweight, but very powerful, open-source code editor to customers, its flagship development environment is actually vanilla Visual Studio. This is ...

Visual Studio 2026 18.5 arrives with two headline changes – a smarter code suggestion system and an AI-powered debugger. Yet ...

A five-year-old Visual Studio feature request for automatic IDE updates is finally getting enacted by Microsoft amid a lot of initial developer pushback, seemingly misplaced. It was June 7, 2019, when ...

The February 2026 feature update for the Visual Studio 2026 Stable Channel is labeled 18.3 and centers on AI-assisted workflows plus debugging, testing, and modernization updates. New additions ...

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 ...

Visual Studio 2022 17.7 and a preview of 17.8 promise to streamline development with enhancements to diffs, comparisons, searches, pull requests, unit tests, and more. Microsoft has unveiled Visual ...

The first preview release of Visual Studio 2026 has arrived. As you might expect from a new Microsoft product, the big selling point is more AI integration, but there are some great performance ...

For the last few years, Visual Studio Code has delivered new major updates each month. Now, those updates will arrive once a week, and the first weekly update has some helpful changes to AI agents.