Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...

What exactly is the difference between Microsoft’s Visual Studio IDE (integrated development environment) and its Visual Studio Code source code editor? This is a question that is popping up more ...

VSCodium avoids this entire issue. It is a community-driven option for those who don't want the proprietary distribution ...

About three years ago Microsoft released a new source code editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS. This was named Visual Studio Code. It is way lighter IDE than various editions of the legendary Visual ...

Microsoft today announced the private preview launch of Visual Studio Online, an online code editor the company is positioning as a companion to Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. The service is ...

Developers planning to upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft’s Visual Studio code-writing platform will find a new and improved user interface that the company says will make writing and editing ...

Syntax highlighting and auto-complete with IntelliSense. Smart completions based on variable types, function definitions, and imported modules. It is Extensible and customizable, supports Git commands ...

Microsoft today launched the Community 2013 edition of Visual Studio, which essentially replaces the very limited Visual Studio Express version the company has been offering for a few years now. There ...

PowerShell is now a lot more than a system management tool for Windows. The latest releases of PowerShell are built on the current cross-platform .NET and support macOS and Linux alongside the ...

At its Connect(); 2017 developer event - which is happening right now - Microsoft has detailed a series of tools meant to make developers' lives easier. Among them, entering private preview, is ...

This isn't so much a tip as a clarification: I often find that people are confused about what happens when you press F5 vs. when you press Control_F5. Here's the best description I've found (and it's ...

As the GitHub Copilot "AI pair programmer" shakes up the software development space, Microsoft's Mads Kristensen reminds folks that Visual Studio's IntelliCode ain't too shabby, either. Kristensen, ...