Visual Studio Magazine readers have selected their favorite third-party tools, components and services across 43 categories in the 2026 Reader's Choice Awards.

Update adds multi-window agent sessions, side-by-side chats, conversation search and an integrated HTML preview workflow.

TL;DR: Get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $29.97 (reg. $499) through Aug. 23 at 11:59 p.m. PT, with ...

August’s Patch Tuesday is a big one: 751 fixes, an exploited WinSock flaw and plenty of critical Windows, Office and Exchange issues.

Microsoft releases .NET 11 Preview 7 with MSBuild server, NativeAOT changes, new C# features, and improvements across ASP.NET Core.