If you perform any web development with Visual Studio then Web Essentials will save you hundreds of hours. It is available as a free extension for Visual Studio 2010 and newer. Web Essentials adds ...

Web development tooling has taken a giant leap forward in Visual Studio 2013. Visual Studio 2012 had seven different ASP.Net project types, and if you started with what turned out to be the wrong ...

There are a raft of minor improvements listed in the March 14 announcement of Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 2, but accompanying release notes note that the IDE is ditching the baked-in Edge ...

Microsoft is also readying a free Community Edition. The preview edition of the standalone developer software is available now as a free download via the Visual Studio website.

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.

Microsoft's future Visual Studio tool set will be completely redesigned, taking developers well beyond current capabilities and providing Longhorn-specific functions.

Microsoft celebrated the tenth anniversary this month of its Visual Studio developer tools line by acquiring one of its ISV tools partners, devBiz Business Solutions of Rochester, NY.

Microsoft announced today plans to release Visual Studio for Mac at the upcoming Connect() conference set to start this Wednesday on November 16.

Microsoft has added Model Context Protocol (MCP) support to Visual Studio, its flagship integrated development environment ...