The August 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 is now out, offering new AI capabilities and even ways to scale back AI ...

Microsoft admitted that while it added many new features to the Visual Studio XAML Designer over the years, the tool lost some of its allure among developers, who spoke up about dragging performance ...

These controls had been replaced with more powerful controls in 2005 with the release of .NET Framework 2.0 and have not been available by default in the Visual Studio Designer Toolbox for years.

For one, there still is no visual designer customized to work with the new Office 2007 features. And VSTO 2005 SE also does not support document-based add-ins for Office 2007 applications.

Infragistics ensures that its presentation layer development tools are compatible with Visual Studio 2008.