As near as I can tell, very few developers create their own Visual Studio code snippets. There's a reason for that: the XML you have to wrap around code snippet is a real pain to write. Fortunately, ...

I'm not a big user of code snippets, but I know developers who are. I've noticed those developers often don't use the default value supplied for the variable part of the snippet (What! All your ...

Microsoft today launched a new plugin for Visual Studio called Bing Developer Assistant. The tool, which is available for both Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013, helps developers find code ...

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Visual Studio Code is a great, free, cross-platform, open source code editor with an extensive library of prebuilt extensions for all kinds of useful, add-on functionality. Sometimes, however, you don ...