Open source champion Eclipse Foundation is advancing the Open VSX Registry, a vendor-neutral, community-supported alternative to the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace. However, while Microsoft's ...

Microsoft has eased some licensing requirements for Visual Studio Build Tools (VSBT), which comprises a standalone MSVC compiler, libraries and scripts for C++. The ...

With licensing restrictions that favor individual users and open source developers, the free-to-use edition of Visual Studio offers non-Microsoft developers quite a lot, too With Visual Studio 2015 ...

Black Duck Hub is a database and code-checking service. Its database, Black Duck KnowledgeBase, contains data on over 2 million open-source projects and 79,000+ known open-source vulnerabilities.

Visual Basic is a .NET framework-oriented programming language used to develop Web applications, Windows software and mobile apps. Visual Basic is part of Microsoft's development software, Visual ...

NEW YORK—Developers can now debug apps running on Linux servers or IoT devices from the comfort of Visual Studio. Microsoft today released a preview of a Visual Studio extension that adds remote ...

The Eclipse Foundation has released Eclipse Theia 1.0, which it is promoting as "a true open source alternative" to Microsoft's lightweight Visual Studio Code (VS Code) source code editor. An ...

Android developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio now have more choice. They can opt for Microsoft’s cross-platform toolset or use an Android development add-on recently released as open source.