Microsoft is making Visual Studio 2017 generally available for download today, March 7. Developers can download the latest VS release here and the VS 2017 release notes are here. Microsoft supports ...

Microsoft’s tools for developers hit another milestone Tuesday, when the company made Visual Studio 2017 generally available. As the name implies, this is the next major release of Microsoft’s ...

Two years ago, when I reviewed Visual Studio 2015, I came away thinking that Microsoft’s IDE had become the most complicated product ever, and Microsoft would have to simplify it in the future. I was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. It is now a full 20-years since Microsoft first offered its ...

According to Microsoft, community developers are driving changes to its flagship IDE, including a host of improvements in the just-announced second preview of Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.4.

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.9, with improvements for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) development and C++ debugging. For UWP, the Windows 10 Insider Preview SDK now is ...

Just over 20 years have passed since Microsoft first shipped Visual Studio, which bundled development environments for C++, Visual Basic, and its Java dialect J++. Since then, the languages have ...

Microsoft plans to commemorate the launch with a virtual keynote presentation, which will also be Microsoft's recognition of the 20th anniversary of the release of Visual Studio (Visual Studio 97 in ...