Microsoft shipped a major update of its Windows App SDK, a unifying resource for building various kinds of Windows apps with modern technologies.

Visual Studio 2022 17.7 is now generally available. It brings plenty of features and improvements to create a high-level developer experience, based on community feedback.

The company unveils the new CTP of the Visual Studio 2005 software development kit and also closes in on "dogfooding" goals for Visual Studio Team System.

Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 SDK has been reduced to 10MB, a tenfold reduction from the 100MB size of the predecessor Visual Studio 2008 SDK, a Microsoft official said on Wednesday.

Microsoft said its compiler and standard library are feature-complete for C++ 20 in Visual Studio 2019 16.10, while a 16.11 preview centers on Hot Reload and .NET MAUI.

Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Runtime is another collection of libraries required by Windows programs developed using Microsoft Visual Studio.