Public preview of Microsoft’s C++ tools for the AI coding assistant are available in Visual Studio 2026 Insiders.

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code is a free code editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS that is used by a lot of developers because of its small disk footprint and customization options. The C++ extension ...

The text editor is the most critical tool in a programmer's arsenal, acting as the daily workbench, primary interface, and ...

A new version of Microsoft’s integrated development environment (IDE) goes live today with the release of Visual Studio 2019 and its cousin Visual Studio 2019 for Mac. Visual Studio is in a bit of a ...

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 ...

Microsoft has eased some licensing requirements for Visual Studio Build Tools (VSBT), which comprises a standalone MSVC compiler, libraries and scripts for C++. The ...

Microsoft published guidance explaining how C++ developers can upgrade their existing projects to Visual Studio 2026. The company said the process is straightforward and designed to minimize ...

Even though it’s not essential to install a C++ extension, if you are facing this issue, we recommend you go ahead and install it. It will install all the required ...