Hot Commands for Visual Studio, by Justin Clareburt, gives you a small collection of useful refactoring and coding tools such as toggling comments, duplicating selected code, joining lines, formatting ...

Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio Code are a bit more C++-friendly now that tools have improved support. Plus: Windows 10 evaulation VMs are now updated and available.

The January release of Visual Studio Code 1.9 is out with a bunch of fixes, updates and new features, including a new interactive playground that lets developers try out editing features immediately.

The new release brings improvements to JavaScript heap profiles, CSS code formatting, and local history. Visual Studio Code 1.66 became available on March 30.