I downloaded and installed the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate last week with high hopes — finally, I’d be able to ditch Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005. After all, I was impressed by ...

As a daily user of Visual Studio from its inception, and of Visual C++ and Visual InterDev before that, I have been following the evolution of Microsoft's development environment quite closely. In the ...

When Visual Studio 2008 came out last November, it was packed with a lot new functionality and features that made many a Microsoft developer's heart go a flutter. This month, Microsoft unveiled 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. For decades, when I got to work in ...