After looking at the preview of Visual Studio 2015, Tony Patton says his overall first impressions of the release are favorable. Here are its standout features.

Visual Studio Code is a code optimized editor for Windows, OS X, and Linux, with support for IntelliSense (an intelligent code completion system), debugging, and GIT.

For TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, and Visual Basic, Visual Studio Code has superior language support. For the other 30-odd supported languages, Visual Studio Code has parity with Atom.

While Visual Studio Code, which tops the charts in the 2025 Stack Overflow developer IDE survey, might garner all the attention, Visual Studio (29 percent of votes) is not far behind in usage ...

Microsoft today unleashed a torrent of news at its Connect(); 2015 developer event in New York City. The company open-sourced Visual Studio Code, launched a free Visual Studio Dev Essentials ...

Here's a round-up of the most recently released extensions for Visual Studio. There's something here for everyone, from starting a new project to deploying your code.

Microsoft released its first cross-platform code editor to great fanfare yesterday, but it’s not quite what it appears when you peek under the hood. Visual Studio Code is based on technology ...

Microsoft is rolling out a slew of Visual Studio announcements meant to enable devs to create any and all kinds of apps on a variety of target platforms.

At DockerCon, a demo during a keynote shows Visual Studio Code capable of editing of Docker Compose files via an extension that will be available at the next update.

Microsoft has released a beta of its Visual Studio Code light-weight code editor, opening it up to extensions and open sourcing the product.

The new Visual Studio Code software is available for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows. It packs code completion, Git integration, linting, and sophisticated debugging capability.