Just over 20 years have passed since Microsoft first shipped Visual Studio, which bundled development environments for C++, Visual Basic, and its Java dialect J++. Since then, the languages have ...

Two years ago, when I reviewed Visual Studio 2015, I came away thinking that Microsoft’s IDE had become the most complicated product ever, and Microsoft would have to simplify it in the future. I was ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.9, with improvements for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) development and C++ debugging. For UWP, the Windows 10 Insider Preview SDK now is ...

Microsoft this week issued its second preview of Visual Studio 2017 15.5, with several new features introduced to improve C++ development in particular. New C++ functionality in this second preview ...

No secrets here, as features and updates of the suite have been portioned out in public testing in the months and weeks up to the launch. So much of what's new in this morning's announcements have to ...

Microsoft is making Visual Studio 2017 generally available for download today, March 7. Developers can download the latest VS release here and the VS 2017 release notes are here. Microsoft supports ...

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Microsoft today announced plans to launch Visual Studio 2017 on March 7, 2017. Visual Studio 2017 went into public preview in March 2016 and hit Release Candidate status in November 2016. Formerly ...

At Microsoft’s Build 2017 developer conference, the biggest Visual Studio news wasn’t even for its own platform: Visual Studio 2017 for Mac has hit general availability (download here, requires OS X ...

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Microsoft has officially released Visual Studio for Mac following an extended preview period for developers. The release corresponds with the kick off of Microsoft’s Build 2017 developer conference ...