Implications for the Developer Community The evolution of Visual Studio Code and the updates to .NET 10 Preview 4 reflect broader trends that are reshaping the software development industry.

In addition to the Visual Studio Designer, there is a special designer tool for WPF, Blend, which was initially a stand-alone program from 2007. It was first called Expression Interactive Designer ...

However, the designer does not generate a markup language, as is common today with many GUI frameworks, but program code in C# or Visual Basic .NET.

If you see error Something went wrong, The install operation failed in Visual Studio Installer and its is stuck at installing package, see this post for the fix.

Microsoft also released Visual Studio 17.8 for Windows to coincide with the .NET 8 release. A new local-only AI tool for Visual Studio called Windows AI Studio based on Azure AI Studio is set to ...

Microsoft has announced it is retiring Visual Studio for Mac and that support for the latest version, 17.6, will continue for another year, until August 31, 2024.

Microsoft is previewing a Visual Studio IDE extension to upgrade older .NET-based applications to the latest versions of the .NET software development platform. In a February 15 blog post ...

Visual Studio 2022 for Windows version 17.3 includes MAUI workload as an optional installation called .NET Multi-platform App UI development.

Note that .NET 6 is supported in both Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio 2022 for Mac. However, .NET 6 is not compatible with Visual Studio 2019, Visual Studio for Mac 8, or MSBuild 16.

Microsoft last week set the record straight that Web Forms, part of ASP.NET from the old .NET Framework, isn't going away in Visual Studio 2022, though it recommends Blazor as a .NET 6 alternative. It ...