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.

Visual Studio 2022 17.6 brings significant performance, editor, and C++ enhancements, while a version 17.7 preview adds more productivity improvements. Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2022 17.6 IDE is ...

Visual Studio 2022 17.12, the latest version of Microsoft’s signature integrated development environment (IDE), is now generally available, with improvements ranging from productivity ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 17.9 Preview 2, the last release concluding development efforts for 2023. This update builds upon the foundation provided by Preview 1 in November.

"Throughout the years, our customers have helped shape the direction of C++ development in VS Code by asking for key features and reporting bugs," said Julia Reid, program manager, Visual C++, in a ...

Visual Studio-backed programming languages fared well in the latest TIOBE Index popularity report, with Visual Basic and R jumping up in the rankings and TypeScript cracking the top 100 for the ... VB ...

In Visual Studio 17.7, additions related to Linux and embedded development with C++ appeared. Visual Studio now offers effortless WSL acquisition. Opening a CMake project prompts WSL installation ...

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 ...

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 was previously available as a preview, but is now generally available. It contains improvements for XAML and .NET productivity, tooling for Git, and C++ development.