A Microsoft MVP Blog post on Visual Studio Live!'s longevity arrives as the 2026 conference series continues with upcoming stops at Microsoft HQ, San Diego and Orlando.

A 34-vote social media poll showed 44.1 percent support for adding more database tooling options to Visual Studio, with 41.2 percent opposed and 14.7 percent choosing "Either way." Several responses ...

Free Community version, Professional version, and Enterprise edition. The Community edition is the free version of the software bundle and is least featured. But anyway, it gets your work done as a ...

With licensing restrictions that favor individual users and open source developers, the free-to-use edition of Visual Studio offers non-Microsoft developers quite a lot, too With Visual Studio 2015 ...

How close is the Visual Studio Community Free version for students/open source developers compared to the full Pro/Enterprise Versions? I've got a class coming up and was wondering if for most ...

This week Microsoft announced the editions that will be available for Visual Studio 2015, as well as their costs, when it releases the new version this summer. The lowest tier, Visual Studio Community ...

Are you into software development or you are going to be a developer very soon? Then you need to know about Microsoft Visual Studio Dev Essentials. Gone are the days when you had to pay a hefty amount ...

Visual Studio 2026 is no longer a preview or a promise, it is a shipping product that developers can install today. Microsoft is positioning this release as a generational reset for its flagship IDE, ...

Microsoft is finally releasing a 64-bit version of Visual Studio, but you have to rebuild your VSIX extensions for the new IDE. Visual Studio has been at the heart of Microsoft’s developer platform ...