The January 2026 update has arrived.

Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET. Microsoft’s Visual Studio is its primary development ...

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA. There was a time when your choices for Java IDEs were ...

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

Coding is hard enough. When projects get complex, and you have to work across teams, languages, and platforms, it can become positively defeating. But that’s why Microsoft Visual Studio Professional ...

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