Visual Studio Pro is one of the most popular IDEs you can use, but subscriptions are expensive. If you want a cheaper ...

TL;DR: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 is $49.99 (reg. $499.99) for a full-featured, 64-bit IDE built for large ...

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This release helps developers get from idea to shipping code faster, limiting interruptions and endless context switching.

Microsoft today invited developers to attend .NET Conf 2025, a free virtual event running Nov. 11-13, highlighting new capabilities coming to Visual Studio 2026. The company describes the conference ...

In his keynote address at the VSLive Visual Studio Developer Conference, Gates highlighted the .Net development environment, a culmination of Microsoft's three-year investment to build a platform on ...

The company plans to reset its tools to work with new products expected to ship in the coming months, including Windows.Net Server and an update to the SQL Server database. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET ...

Mainsoft also announced that it is collaborating with Mono, an open-source development community that is developing an open source version of the Microsoft .NET development platform. With Grasshopper, ...

Microsoft has gone back to the drawing board to retool its Visual Basic programming language in response to developer complaints over planned changes. Microsoft has been developing a new version of ...