Visual Studio 2019 is expected to ship in the first half of this year, and it just took another step on that journey with the release of its second preview. Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 -- in addition ...

Last month, Microsoft announced a new version of Web Template Studio, a cross-platform extension for Visual Studio Code aimed at simplifying the creation of new web applications. The extension ...

What exactly is the difference between Microsoft’s Visual Studio IDE (integrated development environment) and its Visual Studio Code source code editor? This is a question that is popping up ...

Microsoft also will integrate the Visual Studio Live Share collaboration feature into both Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Code, the open-source version of the commercial product.

In the Stack Overflow Developer Survey last year, Visual Studio was named the second most popular integrated development environment (IDE) used by programmers to create software.

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019 16.4, the newest version of its full integrated developer environment (IDE) that was launched in April.

Though details are light for now, Microsoft today took the wraps off of Visual Studio 2019, the next major release planned for the developer suite.

Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 -- in addition to enhancements to various development areas such as C#, Python, Web/container and so on -- has several tweaks designed to improve the "core IDE experience, ...