Despite the file extensions you see in the Add Existing Item dialog box, Visual Studio isn't limited to working with specific kinds of files. If you have some file that you want to include in your ...

Every once in a while, you have a file open in one of your Visual Studio tabs and the file is updated on the disk. Unlike when any unopened files/folders in Solution Explorer are changed, Visual ...

It's easy to miss that you've opened a read-only file in Visual Studio: When you open a file you can't change, a tiny little lock icon appears on the tab of the editor window to the right of the ...

Microsoft is bringing GitHub Copilot’s most advanced Visual Studio integration to C++, allowing the AI assistant to tap into the compiler's understanding of whole C++ codebases.

Though you can write "C" code in Notepad, you must have a C compiler, such as the compiler included with the Microsoft Visual Studio development suite, to compile the code. To write a C code file in ...

NEW YORK—Developers can now debug apps running on Linux servers or IoT devices from the comfort of Visual Studio. Microsoft today released a preview of a Visual Studio extension that adds remote ...

Visual Studio 2022 17.6 brings significant performance, editor, and C++ enhancements, while a version 17.7 preview adds more productivity improvements. Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2022 17.6 IDE is now ...