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.

For its part, Microsoft documentation says: "Visual Studio 2022 enables you to build and debug apps for Linux using C++, Python, and Node.js." Of course, that's a far cry from running the IDE natively ...

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 ...

In another gesture toward cross-platform tools, Microsoft has introduced Visual Studio Code, a code editor for building Web applications on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows. Detailed at the recent ...

Linux support, the most-requested feature for Visual Studio Code Live Share -- which allows real-time collaboration among developers on different machines and platforms -- was announced this week.

Visual Studio 2015 users have a new way to write C++ code for non-Windows environments. Thanks to the Visual C++ for Linux extension, VS2015 supports writing C++ code under Windows and then ...

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced the launch of Visual Studio Code, a lightweight cross-platform code editor for writing modern web and cloud applications that will run ...

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