Simultaneous with next Wednesday's launch of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Microsoft will release the beta version of Visual Studio 11, the next iteration of the company's hefty development ...

Microsoft is bringing GitHub Copilot’s most advanced Visual Studio integration to C++, allowing the AI assistant to tap into the compiler's understanding of whole C++ codebases.

User interface design expert Billy Hollis is annoyed when he spots even tiny application tweaks that could improve the intuitive experience for users. He finds them everywhere, even in our favorite ...

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, ...

It's not surprising that a data science/machine learning survey says most pros use a Jupyter-based IDE for their work, as Jupyter Notebooks (and Python) are pervasive in the industry. What might be ...

Over the last few years, Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code has emerged as a popular developer’s tool. It’s a lightweight editor at its core, but with a vast array of extensions that transform it into an ...

Eclipse and Visual Studio run neck-and-neck in the PyPL popularity index of desktop IDEs, with Android Studio a distant third The Eclipse IDE, popular with Java developers, has displaced Microsoft’s ...

It won't get the headlines that Microsoft bringing SQL Server to Linux did, but Microsoft joining the Eclipse Foundation and integrating Visual Studio with Eclipse is just as big a deal for developers ...