Microsoft highlighted Copilot planning, context visibility, diff review updates and MSVC Build Tools v14.51 in its May Visual Studio update.

A small social media poll from Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen split respondents over whether the IDE should add more database tooling, while the discussion quickly turned to existing SQL project ...

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Testing, debugging, and managing projects usually happen in the same environment, which is why tools like Visual Studio tend to stick around for the long haul. The downside is that the costs can stick ...

Visual Studio 2026 is no longer a preview or a promise, it is a shipping product that developers can install today. Microsoft is positioning this release as a generational reset for its flagship IDE, ...

If you’ve been thinking about upgrading your development environment, this deal makes it a lot easier to justify. Microsoft ...

VS Code 1.100 adds support for instructions and prompt files for Copilot Chat and speeds up edits in agent mode and in Next Edit Suggestions. Visual Studio Code 1.100, the latest release of ...

Microsoft has released the second preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.14, bringing with it several new features, including improved code completion. The new code completion model has been trained on ...

Business and enterprise users can now connect their own API keys to use LLMs via OpenRouter, Ollama, Google, OpenAI, and more in VS Code Chat. Visual Studio Code 1.117 is available for download. The ...