Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET.

Microsoft announced the general availability of its C# Dev Kit, a Visual Studio Code extension that adds functionality missing in an existing C# tool -- functionality that comes with for-pay licensing ...

What you need to know. Visual Studio 2022 17.1 has entered general availability. It includes changes to VS22 designed to enhance productivity. Changes to default settings, a new autosave feature ...

Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio When talking about collaboration in the Microsoft world, of course, Microsoft Teams is front and center. As Ignite 2022 kicked off, Microsoft announced that the Teams ...

Visual Studio 2022 17.7 is now generally available. It brings plenty of features and improvements to create a high-level developer experience, based on community feedback. There are new features withi ...

Aiming to reach a larger audience of software developers, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced slimmed-down “Express” editions of its Visual Studio developer tool for specific programming ...

In the third preview of Visual Studio 17.5, Microsoft added spell-checking functionality for C#, C++, and Markdown files. If you correct any identifiers it will auto-refactor your code.

For the rest, the Express editions are free versions of Microsoft’s popular Visual Studio development suite. The Express editions include a basic IDE and compilers for creating Windows applications.