Following a naming convention similar to Windows, Microsoft has released the first Insider build for Visual Studio 2026.

The August 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 is now out, offering new AI capabilities and even ways to scale back AI ...

Mainsoft's "Grasshopper," a free Visual Studio .Net plug-in, enables Visual Studio developers to create applications for Linux.

Microsoft launches Visual Studio 2019 after focusing on making the popular software development tool easier to use by Tom Krazit on April 2, 2019 at 9:00 am Share 39 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

Adding MCP support to Visual Studio, according to Stephanie Walter, analyst at HyperFRAME Research, will boost developer productivity and integration flexibility.

Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 brings improvements in formatted output, vectorization, and diagnostics, CMake debugger support, and nearly 4x faster conditional breakpoints for C++.

Visual Studio 2022 17.7 is now generally available. It brings plenty of features and improvements to create a high-level developer experience, based on community feedback.

Alas, things did not quite pan out that way. Firing up Visual Studio 2015 today is a reminder of Microsoft's grand developer vision that fell apart after only a few years.

After looking at the preview of Visual Studio 2015, Tony Patton says his overall first impressions of the release are favorable. Here are its standout features.

Customers that have purchased Microsoft's all-in-one Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite with update licensing will receive the new database developer software for free, according to company executives.

The release of this iteration of Visual Studio delivers a native Arm64 experience that “eliminates the need for emulation in most developer workflows,” according to Microsoft.

I know you can install Windows 11 for ARM in Parallels and then run Visual Studio and SQL Server on top of that (with ARM-x64 emulation, I guess?), but IIS support was missing last I checked.