Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, in partnership with Microsoft has made it possible to install Visual Studio Code on any Linux distribution which supports snap.

Microsoft made Visual Studio Code available for Linux as a Snap, supporting the containerized software package and seamless auto-updates for Linux users.

There's no doubt about it: The top ask of Visual Studio users is to run the IDE on the Linux OS. The latest evidence of that claim is that "Visual Studio for Linux?" has received the most votes among ...

In today's open source roundup: Microsoft offers .NET tool for Linux. Plus: SuperTuxKart gets a major upgrade. And play the Chocolate Doom game in Debian.

Visual Studio Code is a code optimized editor for Windows, OS X, and Linux, with support for IntelliSense (an intelligent code completion system), debugging, and GIT.

Microsoft debuted their Visual Studio 2015 Extension which provides for writing C++ code in VS2015, which can be compiled and executed on Linux/UNIX based systems during Build 2016.

Installing Visual Studio Code After you hit the download button for the package that best matches your needs and configuration, the package will start downloading on your machine. Now, there are ...

Microsoft described Visual Studio Code as a “code optimized editor,” rather than an IDE, which is how Visual studio itself is described. Both, however, have been designed to work with ...