Microsoft announced new learning benefits to subscribers of its flagship Visual Studio IDE, including discounts for Visual Studio Live! developer conferences and other educational opportunities.

Microsoft's top developers are taking deep dives into tech ranging from AI apps to .NET MAUI at next week's Visual Studio Live! dev conference in Redmond, with live commentary from the company's ...

Visual Studio, meanwhile, is a paid Integrated Development Environment, or IDE, that offers more features to help developers write, debug, edit, and deploy code — and manage entire projects.