At its core, VS Code is built on an open source project called Code OSS, published under the permissive MIT license.

Thanks to its incredible versatility and massive extension ecosystem, VS Code has been the undisputed champion of code editors. But lately, that convenience has felt heavy with sluggish performance ...

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 ...

Microsoft's latest update to Visual Studio Online, its new browser-based code editor that can be accessed remotely using VS Code, has been updated with beefed-up support for Docker containers.

Microsoft's open source development tool starts as an editor, but can become any kind of IDE—and be extended for most any language—on Mac, Linux, or Windows. If there’s any one tool a software ...

After missing a beat in the monthly release cadence in December, the January release of Visual Studio Code 1.9 is out with a bunch of fixes, updates and new features, including an interactive ...

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 ...

New functionality to quickly launch Visual Studio Code in the browser is being infused into more dev tooling, including the Python extension that uses the Pylance language server for language-specific ...

Workflow automation outfit ServiceNow has launched a new extension for Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code), furthering its tie-up with Microsoft, whose Azure cloud is a preferred provider for ...

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 ...