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 ...

Recently GitHub launched its Github.dev service. If you’re browsing some code in a repo, all you need to do to launch an editor is press “.” or edit the page URL, switching out .com for .dev. This ...

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 is announcing the release of version 1.0 of its open-source Visual Studio Code editor. The cross-platform application now has more than 500,000 monthly active users, after launching ...

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 launches Visual Studio 2026 Insiders with AI integration, major performance gains, and a new Fluent UI design.

In 2015, Microsoft launched its answer to that question: Visual Studio Code. At heart, VS Code is a text editor, based on GitHub’s cross-platform Electron framework.

Microsoft is making available the latest versions of Visual Studio, its integrated development environment, for Windows and Mac users.

Visual Studio developers love to tweak their IDEs so they look just right and are very finicky about their choices -- just look at the fuss that met Microsoft's decision to switch to ALL-CAP menus.