TL;DR: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 is on sale for $32.97 (reg. $499.99) through June 28 during Deal Days.

It won't get the headlines that Microsoft bringing SQL Server to Linux did, but Microsoft joining the Eclipse Foundation and integrating Visual Studio with Eclipse is just as big a deal for developers ...

The other evening I was reading this post by Rob Conery about his career decisions, programming language choices, and regrets. There is a lot there that surprised me, but a subtle bullet point in a ...

Eclipse and Visual Studio run neck-and-neck in the PyPL popularity index of desktop IDEs, with Android Studio a distant third The Eclipse IDE, popular with Java developers, has displaced Microsoft’s ...

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Over the last few years, Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code has emerged as a popular developer’s tool. It’s a lightweight editor at its core, but with a vast array of extensions that transform it into an ...

Many companies have switched to the open source Eclipse platform instead of pushing their own proprietary IDE. Atmel decided to take a different approach for its 8- and 32-bit AVR microcontrollers. It ...

Microsoft's Visual Studio now reigns supreme atop the IDE popularity list maintained by the PYPL Index, but the IntelliJ offering is showing signs of catching up with impressive growth. Visual Studio ...

The game development platform has native integration with Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition, which allows option to install it as the default IDE. The Unity gaming development platform now ...

Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4 is now live. It is the first release of the IDE to have native support for Arm64, and it also packs the latest version of .NET. A preview for version 17.5 is ready too.