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Visual Studio 2026
Visual Studio 2026 provides a powerful, AI-augmented development environment for building modern applications across cloud, desktop, and web platforms. In this path, developers learn how to use Visual Studio effectively throughout the entire development workflow—from project setup and debugging to code quality, collaboration, and cloud deployment. You’ll begin by learning how to navigate the Visual Studio environment and take advantage of its core development features. From there, you’ll explore advanced debugging and testing tools, techniques for improving code quality and refactoring safely, and collaborative workflows using Git and GitHub. Finally, you’ll learn how Visual Studio simplifies package management and dependency handling and how it integrates directly with Azure services for cloud-based development. By the end of this path, you’ll understand how to use Visual Studio 2026 to write, debug, test, and deploy applications efficiently while leveraging modern collaboration tools and AI-assisted development capabilities.
**This learning path is actively in production. More content will be added to this path as it gets published and becomes available in the library. To view the full list of content to be included in this Path, click the "About this path" tab below.**
Content in this path
Core Development Workflow (Inside the IDE)
Writing, debugging, improving, and structuring code for core developer skills
Collaboration and Cloud Integration
Working with teams, source control, and deploying to cloud environments for modern engineering environments
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What You'll Learn
- Familiarity with command-line tools is helpful but not required
- Use debugging and diagnostic tools to investigate application behavior
- Create and run automated tests within Visual Studio
- Improve code quality using built-in analysis and refactoring tools
- Manage source code using Git and GitHub integration
- Collaborate with other developers using modern workflows
- Manage project dependencies and NuGet packages
- Use AI-assisted features to improve development productivity
- Content
- Core Development Workflow (Inside the IDE)
- Visual Studio 2026 Fundamentals
- Debugging and Testing with Visual Studio 2026
- Code Quality and Refactoring in Visual Studio 2026
- Package Management and Project Dependencies in Visual Studio 2026
- Collaboration and Cloud Integration
- Working with Git, GitHub, and Collaborative Coding
- Developing for Azure in Visual Studio 2026
- Basic programming experience with a language such as C#, JavaScript, or Python
- Familiarity with software development concepts such as compiling, debugging, and testing
- Basic understanding of source control concepts
- Experience using a code editor or IDE
- Visual Studio
- AI-assisted development workflows
- Debugging techniques and diagnostics tools
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