The open-source version has a subset of the extensions in Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2015. Microsoft plans to make all the extensions open source over time.

Microsoft Announces It Will Open Source .NET, Releases New Visual Studio Tools Microsoft also releases a bevy of next-generation Visual Studio tools, including Visual Studio Community 2013, which is a ...

Microsoft today unleashed a torrent of news at its Connect(); 2015 developer event in New York City. The company open-sourced Visual Studio Code, launched a free Visual Studio Dev Essentials ...

The Visual Studio team says it has released portions of its Visual Studio Test Platform to the open source community. It's available on Github here, with the docs here.

Today, Microsoft announced that it will open-source the entire server-side .Net stack — everything from the ASP.Net Web tools, through the languages, and even the underlying .Net runtime.

With Microsoft’s newfound love of open source code, the company has announced today that it’s open-sourcing Visual Studio’s build tool for the first time.

Microsoft has released a beta of its Visual Studio Code light-weight code editor, opening it up to extensions and open sourcing the product.

Microsoft open sourced a Java debugger it developed for the lightweight, open source Visual Studio Code editor. About a month ago, the company released the VS Code extension to provide Java debugging, ...

Microsoft shocker: Open-source .NET, free Visual Studio, support for Linux, Mac, Android and iOS by Todd Bishop on November 12, 2014 at 7:32 am Share 2 ...

Microsoft open sourced a Java debugger it developed for the lightweight, open source Visual Studio Code editor. About a month ago, the company released the VS Code extension to provide Java debugging, ...

The Eclipse Foundation just released version 1 of an open-source alternative to Visual Studio Code called Eclipse Theia.