By the time you read this, Visual Studio 11 beta 1 will be available for download. In this article, I'll review what Visual Studio 11 has in store for developers from an IDE perspective. Specifically, ...

Anonymous types are a new feature of Visual Basic 9 (2008). They provide a quick and easy way to define simple classes for holding values. Both VB 9 and C# 3.0 provide support for anonymous types, but ...

With the long-awaited Visual Studio 2017 finally rolling out this week, here's a look at some user-requested features that didn't make into Microsoft's flagship IDE, and some that are on track for ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s recently launched Visual Studio 2015 delivers a number of new capabilities that help developers achieve more with their apps across multiple platforms. Visual Studio 2015 unifies debugging ...

Microsoft is bringing GitHub Copilot’s most advanced Visual Studio integration to C++, allowing the AI assistant to tap into the compiler's understanding of whole C++ codebases.