Installing Visual Studio Code. After you hit the download button for the package that best matches your needs and configuration, the package will start downloading on your machine.

Microsoft announced the first generally available release of the C++ extension for Visual Studio Code, graduating to version 1.0. Hitting that milestone was a long time in coming, as the tool in the ...

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.

Visual Studio Code developers using Microsoft's C/C++ extension have gained the ability to customize the way IntelliSense works when coding for different platforms. The C/C++ extension in the Visual ...

To that end, Visual Studio 2019 (finally) drops Windows XP support for C++ projects; you'll have to use the old Visual Studio 2017 C++ compiler if you want to continue targeting the long-obsolete ...

On July 20, Microsoft declared Visual Studio 2015 officially done and available for download. The latest version of Microsoft's tool suite, as well as .Net 4.6, have been released to manufacturing ...

Microsoft said its compiler and standard library are feature-complete for C++ 20 in Visual Studio 2019 16.10, while a 16.11 preview centers on Hot Reload and .NET MAUI.

Microsoft has rolled out Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2, which contains a ton of enhancements related to Git, C++, .NET, and macOS development. Color tabs are finally supported too.

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.

Download Visual Studio Code Insider. Learn how to sync settings, run public & insider versions together. Difference with Visual Studio IDE also discussed.