Let's catch up with the latest tools and extensions available for Visual Studio 2015 and the recently released Visual Studio 2017. It's been a while since I've done a roundup of new, general-purpose ...

Premature optimization may be the root of all evil, but these tools will make sure your code is clear, clean and secure. Testing your application before shipping is an important part of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. It is now a full 20-years since Microsoft first offered its ...

Two years ago, when I reviewed Visual Studio 2015, I came away thinking that Microsoft’s IDE had become the most complicated product ever, and Microsoft would have to simplify it in the future. I was ...

Just over 20 years have passed since Microsoft first shipped Visual Studio, which bundled development environments for C++, Visual Basic, and its Java dialect J++. Since then, the languages have ...

Microsoft has released their 6th update to Visual Studio 2017. Following the pattern of previous releases, it contains several bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements across the IDE. InfoQ has ...