Microsoft is delivering tools to quickly configure Windows PCs as workstations for Windows and Linux development.

With Dev Configs for Windows, Microsoft has released an open-source collection of configurations that automate the setup of developer workstations on Windows. The configurations are based on the ...

Visual Studio and Azure DevOps are available both as individual products and services and as part of a subscription. Visual Studio Community is available only as an individual product, and only to ...

Microsoft has officially announced full production support for the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) in Visual Studio 2026, expanding the platform’s capabilities for driver developers and enterprise build ...

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 ...

If your Windows install is feeling creaky and you want to freshen up, or if you don't have Windows at all, the fastest way to fix things up is to simply do a clean install. Back up your important ...

When Visual Studio Code (VS Code) was released in 2015, it revolutionized code editing. But it can do so much more for the average person who doesn't write code (yet). Let's explore how it can be ...

Visual Studio 2026 includes GitHub Copilot functionality built into the IDE, while third-party AI coding assistants remain available through the Visual Studio Marketplace. Using Marketplace install ...

Visual Studio Code is a desktop source code editor designed for software development on Windows systems. It provides a clean editing environment combined with powerful features that support writing, ...

The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...

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 ...

This project provides a command palette extension for opening Visual Studio solutions and Visual Studio Code workspaces from a single, unified interface. Because the application is first signed by the ...