With 14 million users, Microsoft's open source cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code is one of its key tools for keeping developers engaged with its future in the cloud.

Developers like Visual Studio Code’s lightweight feel as an editor combined with its ability to check syntax, complete code, refactor code, debug, and check into a repository.

According to that same Stack Overflow survey cited by Microsoft, 56.6 percent of mobile developers are actually using Android Studio, compared to 36.6 percent who are using Visual Studio Code ...

In addition to unveiling Visual Studio Code 1.49, Microsoft on September 14 announced general availability of the 1.0 version of the C++ extension for Visual Studio Code, offering capabilities for ...

Like Visual Studio, the .NET software framework was previously Windows-oriented. In November, however, Microsoft revealed plans to make .NET both cross-platform and open-source. Follow ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2017 development environment continues the company’s new tradition, under CEO Satya Nadella, of working with open-source technologies and competing platforms. (File ...

Microsoft's free Visual Studio Code is an incredible piece of software for coding and the good news is that it's now usable on a Chromebook. You may like Microsoft built a new command line text ...

For a limited time, lifetime access to Microsoft’s top-rated programming tool is only $39.97 (reg. $499). It could help you and your coding team write more accurate code and streamline large ...

The tool offers the same features as the Visual Studio Code extension, so you will be able to get the same support for your code wherever you write it. There’s a lot to like in Microsoft’s ...