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There used to be a time when Microsoft would release new versions of its Visual Studio development environment every two years or so, with maybe a service pack in the middle. Since the release of ...

Visual Studio Tools for Git has "crossed a significant threshold of completeness and usability" with its latest release. That’s according to Microsoft Technical Fellow Brian Harry, who announced the ...

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 ...

Microsoft released a new version of Visual Studio Tools for Git yesterday, that adds some welcome functionality. The update is version 0.8.0.0 (so it's still in the preview stage). The two key ...

Microsoft has been mapping out plans to improve its Git Virtual File System (GVFS), including linking it to the Visual Studio IDE and getting it supported in third-party Git clients. GVFS is an ...

Visual Studio 2022 became generally available back in November 2021, and Microsoft obviously intends to add more features to it past its initial release as well. Today, some of these have arrived in ...