Microsoft has eased some licensing requirements for Visual Studio Build Tools (VSBT), which comprises a standalone MSVC compiler, libraries and scripts for C++.

It's been just a couple week since the second preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6, with the latest iteration featuring improvements to Visual Studio Build Tools, Snapshot Debugging and more.

Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools Support for Azure and other workloads The Visual Studio Build Tools allow you to create build servers without installing all of Visual Studio.

Microsoft today launched the latest version of its Visual Studio tools for developers at an event in New York City. The new version includes a number of user interface improvements, smarter tools ...

Microsoft has previously offered two different build tools for those needing to compile code without installing Visual Studio. The new Visual Studio Build Tools package combines these into a ...

Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview 3, released January 18th, brings the new build acceleration opt-in feature to Visual Studio. Build times are improved for all SDK-style projects.

Visual Studio has tooling that lets you compile for x86 or ARM native platforms, build with Clang or GCC, build on a remote Mac, and emulate Android, iOS, and Windows mobile devices on your desktop.

Developers can now use the latest Visual Studio preview to build native ARM64 apps for Windows 10 on ARM PCs.

There’s no point in breaking a Visual Studio-based workflow by adding graphical web-based tools when you can build new tools into Visual Studio that support those tools.