Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET. Microsoft’s Visual Studio is its primary development ...

Visual Studio has never really been the lightweight option. It's not the tool you open just to tweak a config file or write a ...

There are a raft of minor improvements listed in the March 14 announcement of Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 2, but accompanying release notes note that the IDE is ditching the baked-in Edge ...

Cleaner code with AI assist.

If you’re starting to develop embedded software using Visual Studio Code (VS Code), a question at the top of your list is, “How do I debug my code?” In a vendor-supplied IDE using Eclipse, debugging ...

"I think it's a good move. They should have made it a long time ago, but I'm happy they're doing it now," Developer Express Chief Architect Mark Miller said about Microsoft's announcement this week ...

"If you look at the application life cycle, there has been a disconnect for quite a while between the application development side and the database people," said Matt Nunn, a senior product manager ...

The Copilot Studio extension lets developers use any VS Code-compatible AI assistant to develop AI agents, then sync with Copilot Studio for testing and iteration. Microsoft is offering a Microsoft ...