For the past few years or so, Microsoft has been embracing open-source software. Open-sourcing PowerShell, MSBuild, and its artificial intelligence framework CNTK are just a few examples of the ...

I wonder if Microsoft knew what it had on its hands back in 2015 when it created Visual Studio Code, the little code editor that could. Did the VS Code team even envision the free, open source code ...

Over the last few years, Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code has emerged as a popular developer’s tool. It’s a lightweight editor at its core, but with a vast array of extensions that transform it into an ...

Mozilla has unveiled an IDE for coding WebAssembly projects that could serve as an alternative to Visual Studio and the Visual Studio Code editor. WebAssembly (often abbreviated as Wasm) is a hot ...

Many companies have switched to the open source Eclipse platform instead of pushing their own proprietary IDE. Atmel decided to take a different approach for its 8- and 32-bit AVR microcontrollers. It ...

Microsoft delivers editing, debugging, deployment, project architecture, and ALM improvements stretching from Windows to Web development, from mobile devices to clouds What do you do when you have 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 ...

It won't get the headlines that Microsoft bringing SQL Server to Linux did, but Microsoft joining the Eclipse Foundation and integrating Visual Studio with Eclipse is just as big a deal for developers ...