Grab Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $42.97 (reg. $499.99) and keep a full Microsoft IDE on hand.

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

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Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...

Have you ever wondered if your go-to tools might be holding you back? For millions of developers, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is the undisputed champion of code editors, celebrated for its ...

Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. is a senior ...

Microsoft today announced the first preview version of Visual Studio 2026, which is available from a new Insiders channel that replaces the old Visual Studio Preview channel. “Visual Studio 2026 ...

After nearly 10 years of mainstream and extended support, Microsoft is killing off Visual Studio 2015. It has recommended that customers upgrade to Visual Studio 2022. October 14, 2025, is a fateful ...

Visual Studio is Microsoft’s flagship integrated development environment (IDE) for software developers of all kinds, but it hasn’t received a major upgrade in several years. But if a new report in ...

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 ...