Imagine platform-neutral, language-agnostic tools for writing code. Awesome, yes, but using tools like Visual Studio Code to compose your programmatic masterpiece will require a bit of rethinking.

The experimental Razor editor for Visual Studio introduced last summer has been updated and is "close to being ready for normal daily development." Microsoft last July announced the experimental Razor ...

About a year ago, Microsoft launched Visual Studio Online, its online code editor based on the popular Visual Studio Code project. It’s basically a full code editor and hosted environment that lives ...

Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s no-cost and open source developer-oriented editor and debugger, has reached version 1.0. Over its short life, the editor has made itself remarkably popular, with ...

Fortunately, Visual Studio Code has a little terminal you can use to run commands without needing to swap between windows.

January 2025 release of VS Code includes a Copilot feature that predicts the user’s next edit, a movable Command Palette, and no-config debugging for Python scripts. A just-released update of Visual ...

Microsoft today announced a free editor for developers called Visual Studio Code, which is now available for download. Visual Studio Code is a code optimized editor for Windows, OS X, and Linux, with ...

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 for ...

Microsoft is bringing GitHub Copilot’s most advanced Visual Studio integration to C++, allowing the AI assistant to tap into the compiler's understanding of whole C++ codebases.

Microsoft is open sourcing Visual Studio (VS) Code, its light-weight code editor that works on Windows, Mac OS and Linux machines. Microsoft officials made the announcement on the first day of its two ...

Visual Studio has always been a big product with a raft of features that grew with each release. Visual Studio 2015 extends that trend in ways I never expected to see from Microsoft. Cross-platform ...