MSBuild is more powerful than you might think, as it’s usually hidden behind an IDE. Here’s a peek behind the curtain.

You can get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 plus a full learn-to-code course bundle on sale for $34.97 on ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.129, introducing an experimental preview of a substantially modernized interface for this most popular cross-platform code editor. Instead of adding a new ...

Bring Claude Code into Visual Studio 2026. The claude CLI does the agent work. This extension is the IDE half of Claude Code's integration protocol: a native diff window with accept and reject, ...

Today at KotlinConf 2026, we announced the Alpha release of the official Kotlin extension for Visual Studio Code. IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio remain the most complete environments for Kotlin ...

GitHub Copilot testing for .NET in Visual Studio 2026 v18.3 can generate tests for the xUnit, NUnit, and MSTest test frameworks. Microsoft has made GitHub Copilot testing for .NET, a new capability in ...

Anthropic's open source standard, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), released in late 2024, allows users to connect AI models and the agents atop them to external tools in a structured, reliable format ...

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 ...

A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...

Running your code in Visual Studio only takes a few clicks once your project is configured correctly. Here’s how to start, debug, and test apps across different programming languages. Follow these ...

"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 ...