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The most comprehensive IDE for .NET and C++ devs on Windows. It's packed with a sweet array of tools to elevate every stage of software development.

 Redmond, WA, USA
Joined October 2008
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💾 AWE ≠ PAE. Windows Address Windowing Extensions can work without Physical Address Extension, but PAE is what made AWE shine by enabling access to memory beyond the 4 GB barrier. 🔬 Great Windows internals deep dive from Raymond Chen. 📖 msft.it/6019a5ead #Windows #Cpp #SystemsProgramming
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GPT-6.1 Sol is now available in Visual Studio. The latest model from OpenAI is built for agentic coding and terminal workflows, reliably completing tasks with noticeably fewer tokens and steps than earlier models in the GPT-6 and GPT-5.6 families. Learn more: msft.it/6013acF8V #VisualStudio #GitHubCopilot #AI
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Jason Bock makes the case that the best AI workflows don't replace engineering, they just remove the boring parts: msft.it/6012a5ecm
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🧠➡️🤖 AI is reshaping developer learning. As Copilot handles more syntax and boilerplate, the focus shifts to architecture, debugging, critical thinking, and asking better questions. The dev playbook is evolving fast. 🚀 Read: msft.it/6011a5eZf #GitHubCopilot #AI #VisualStudio #dotnet
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Anna Hoffman makes the case that adding AI doesn't mean rebuilding your database: msft.it/6014a5eKp
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now available in Visual Studio. Anthropic's newest Sonnet model is designed for well-scoped everyday work like building features and fixing bugs, matching Claude Sonnet 5 on coding tasks with significantly fewer steps, tokens, and tool calls. Plus, it finished tasks noticeably faster. Select it from the model picker in Copilot Chat to get started. Learn more: msft.it/6015acOjl #VisualStudio #GitHubCopilot #AI
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🧪 Coverage at 37%? Let's fix that. 🚀 Use Visual Studio Code Coverage + the GitHub Copilot Test Agent to find real testing gaps, generate targeted unit tests, and boost coverage to 81% without guesswork. 🤯📈 Read the blog 👇 msft.it/6015a5ZpB #VisualStudio #GitHubCopilot #Testing
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You don't have to be a performance expert to find real wins. Mads Kristensen digs into how: msft.it/6017a5kCH
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Kayla Cinnamon dives right into Plan mode: less iteration, lower cost, way more confidence in the result: msft.it/6015ajcOl
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🚫 Win32 trivia time! Want to remove a window's Close button? Turns out it's harder than it sounds. Raymond Chen explains WS_SYSMENU, SC_CLOSE, caption buttons, and why disabling exit paths is usually a bad UX idea. 😅 📖 msft.it/6017ajcKH
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Simona Liao and Leah Tran compare your AI assistant to a new hire, it needs onboarding too: msft.it/6012ajiYs
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How much of what you build lives outside Visual Studio itself? Visual Studio Subscribers, activate your Pluralsight benefit and keep learning: msft.it/6015a9lZb
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How much of what you build actually lives outside Visual Studio itself? Databases, cloud infrastructure, git workflows, and the other languages sitting alongside C# in your stack, Pluralsight can help you sharpen (cont) msft.it/l/6012a9GJC
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🧮 C++23 + MSVC = compile-time math magic ✨ constexpr <cmath> is arriving via LLVM libc in MSVC 14.52 Preview, enabling compile-time evaluation of math functions with improved accuracy and consistency. ⚙️🚀 Try /std:c++23 + /Zc:cmath and dive into the details! 📖 msft.it/6019ajiC9
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🐛 A Word 97 release-blocking crash resisted debugging, pointed to a CPU erratum, and was fixed with a single nop instruction. When you're in the end game of a release, every change carries risk. Fascinating debugging story from Raymond Chen. 📖 msft.it/6019ajByW
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In this One Dev Question, Amanda Silver reflects on the evolution of Visual Studio Code, from its open source architecture and thriving extension ecosystem to the transformative impact of GitHub Copilot. She discusses how AI-powered coding assistance has reshaped developer tools and introduced a new era where intelligent cloud services are as important as the editor itself. 🎥 msft.it/6012aj6gr
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Same app, just spiced up with GitHub Copilot SDK. Kayla Cinnamon and James Montemagno show it live: msft.it/6015abIoX
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⚙️ C++ + VS 2026 = 🔥 🤖 Copilot modernization for MSVC upgrades ⚡ Whole Codebase Indexing 🌳 Git worktrees & submodules 🐳 Podman debugging 🧠 BYOM AI models Big upgrades for big native codebases. 📖 Read more: msft.it/6017abLJ3
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Real developer. Real experience. ⚡ What's been your experience with Visual Studio 2026?
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Union types. In this One Dev Question, Mads Torgersen explains how C# will let you model a closed set of unrelated types, create union values from them, and switch over them in a fully strongly typed way. It lands in C# 15 this November, and there's already a preview compiler you can try in #VisualStudio and #VSCode. 🎥msft.it/6014abxfM
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Same app, just spiced up with GitHub Copilot SDK. Kayla Cinnamon and James Montemagno show it live: msft.it/6017abwqR
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