Visual Studio Code is a great, free, cross-platform, open source code editor with an extensive library of prebuilt extensions for all kinds of useful, add-on functionality. Sometimes, however, you don ...

Mark Michaelis walks you through the Visual Studio tooling and project setup you'll need to get the most out of your JavaScript unit testing. As I detailed in my recent article "A TypeScript Primer," ...

Microsoft has released a January update of its popular open-source cross-platform Visual Studio Code (VS Code) code editor. VS Code version 1.42 is available today for Windows 10, macOS, and Linux ...

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 ...

Microsoft launched Visual Studio Code at the Build Developer Conference 2015, making it the company’s first true cross-platform free code editor. As a direct competition to text and code editors such ...

Microsoft’s 2018 roadmap for its open source Visual Studio Code code editor includes better performance, reduced memory consumption, and more support for JavaScript and TypeScript. The multilanguage ...

Microsoft has created a built-in JavaScript debugger for Visual Studio Code, the wildly popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. That built-in experience comes via vscode-js-debug, a ...

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 ...

As promised in February, Microsoft embraced the wildly popular React JavaScript library in Visual Studio 2015 by providing built-in support for its JSX syntax. So I took it for a spin. It works.

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...