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

TL;DR: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026, a full-featured IDE with built-in AI tools and collaboration features, is now price dropped to $34.97 (reg. $499.99) through May 17 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

TL;DR: Get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $34.97 (reg. $499.99) through May 31 and upgrade your coding setup ...

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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Windows Driver Kit (WDK) is an essential piece of software primarily utilized by developers to build robust drivers for Windows. It also bundles code samples, documentation, and other tools that can ...

Microsoft is finally releasing a 64-bit version of Visual Studio, but you have to rebuild your VSIX extensions for the new IDE. Visual Studio has been at the heart of Microsoft’s developer platform ...