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.

Just in case there was any doubt, Microsoft quietly confirmed it won't be adding support for React Native -- the game-changing way to build iOS and Android mobile apps with JavaScript-- to its ...

Imagine platform-neutral, language-agnostic tools for writing code. Awesome, yes, but using tools like Visual Studio Code to compose your programmatic masterpiece will require a bit of rethinking.

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 ...