Microsoft has up the first three of sixteen video tutorials designed to teach novices the basics of application development with the Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions. Lesson 1: Getting Started ...

You have a 50/50 shot at accessing a new experiment from the Visual Studio dev team that integrates tutorials with the IDE for an experience that combines guidance with live code.

Microsoft added new Web app tutorials -- covering Django and Flask -- to its Python documentation for Visual Studio and its open source little cousin, the cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor.

Microsoft Visual Studio Pro 2022 and the Premium Learn to Code Certification Bundle are on sale for $55.97.

If you’re learning Python or C++, Visual Studio Pro is a platform to practice coding without getting bogged down by complications.