Microsoft has published a stable version of the C++ extension for its popular open-source cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code, with support for Arm-based computers and new productivity ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 2 of the integrated development environment (IDE) with a new IntelliSense linter to help C++ developers efficiently clean up code.

Microsoft's C# programming language has passed Visual Basic .NET on the TIOBE Index -- which measures language popularity -- and is even in the running for being named "Programming Language of the ...

According to TIOBE, the top 10 programming languages for the month are: Java, C, Python, C++, Visual Basic .NET, C#, JavaScript, PHP, SQL and Objective-C.

For years, Visual Studio has limited C support to whatever was required for the C++ language, which was built as an extension of C.