Right now, StackSocial is offering Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for Windows as a lifetime license for just $50.

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 ...

"If you look at the application life cycle, there has been a disconnect for quite a while between the application development side and the database people," said Matt Nunn, a senior product manager ...

Microsoft has just released its 5th consumer technical preview of Visual Studio 2015, introducing numerous new additions to its popular software development tools. Similar to the way the software ...

Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 brings improvements in formatted output, vectorization, and diagnostics, CMake debugger support, and nearly 4x faster conditional breakpoints for C++. Microsoft has rolled ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

Microsoft code editor Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is just five years old but the developer tool has gained impressive adoption with the world's developer population. VS Code today has 14 million ...

Microsoft also announced two significant licensing changes around Visual Studio that will be a boon for partners. First, the company said it will soon initiate a shared-source licensing program for ...

Microsoft is busy factoring in the growing use of dynamic languages in its planned upgrade to the Visual Studio software development platform. The upcoming Visual Studio 2010 release boosts ...

Expression Design 4, Microsoft’s vector graphics design tool, has been quietly killed and is no longer available for sale nor will there be any new versions developed by Microsoft. The software is now ...