Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio Code are a bit more C++-friendly now that tools have improved support. Plus: Windows 10 evaulation VMs are now updated and available. What do C and C++ developers ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Not too surprisingly, documents leaked earlier this week were correct and Microsoft is making available to developers for testing two new test versions of Visual Studio: Visual Studio for Mac and ...

Visual Studio 2015 Color Theme Editor was a very popular tool for customizing the Visual Studio editor ... popular enough that people were hacking it to support Visual Studio 2017. No hacking needed ...

Improved save experience - Before updating Visual Studio all pending changes will be saved locally first before starting the update. The update dialog, will show a Save All & Update button instead of ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio IDE has added support for the C11 and C17 C language standards, thus expanding the IDE’s previously limited support for C. C11 and C17 become supported language versions ...

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Microsoft today announced plans to launch Visual Studio 2017 on March 7, 2017. Visual Studio 2017 went into public preview in March 2016 and hit Release Candidate status in November 2016. Formerly ...

The latest offering of Visual Studio contains many features. It has come a long way since it was released. Well, let’s just quickly dive in on how a beginner can get started with VS. So, first of all, ...