Periodically, I encounter an annoying but not fatal problem with Microsoft Visual Studio: the help takes a long time to display the first time I launch it in a session. Sometimes I expect this to ...

Microsoft's Visual Studio dev team is seeking help to revamp the IDE's help menu. The team is experimenting with different versions of the "age old" help menu while seeking developer feedback on the ...

Visual Studio has never really been the lightweight option. It's not the tool you open just to tweak a config file or write a ...

Cleaner code with AI assist.

This post explains how to use Copilot in Visual Studio using extension. GitHub Copilot, an AI coding assistant that offers autocomplete-style suggestions to help you code faster, is now available for ...

New Help Viewer option allows Microsoft books and resources for the newest VS version to be available and updated with more recent and timely information. Plus: MSDN Editor-in-Chief Michael Desmond ...

Visual Studio 2026 18.5 arrives with two headline changes – a smarter code suggestion system and an AI-powered debugger. Yet ...

About three years ago Microsoft released a new source code editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS. This was named Visual Studio Code. It is way lighter IDE than various editions of the legendary Visual ...

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...