Microsoft is rolling out major updates across its developer ecosystem, from Visual Studio 2026’s deep AI integration and Git workflow enhancements to Xbox’s new Game Package Manager and PowerToys 0.99 ...

The April update suppresses Copilot completions while IntelliSense is active, addressing a long-running editor conflict.

"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 ...

Visual Studio has never really been the lightweight option. It's not the tool you open just to tweak a config file or write a ...

VS Code 1.118 adds remote Copilot control, enterprise AI restrictions, and smarter caching while improving developer ...

Microsoft is planning a big upgrade to Visual Studio. The move may be a response to intense competition for AI coding tools. The new Visual Studio will be packed with AI features as Microsoft tries to ...

A one-time license for a developer tool that tends to stick around ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET. Microsoft’s Visual Studio is its primary development ...

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 ...