With 14 million users, Microsoft's open source cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code is one of its key tools for keeping developers engaged with its future in the cloud.

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 2 of the integrated development environment (IDE) with a new IntelliSense linter to help C++ developers efficiently clean up code.

This article is a step by step guide on how to download & install Visual Studio Code, along with details about its different channels.

You can get this bundle with Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 and the 2024 Premium Learn to Code Certification Bundle on sale for $56.99 (reg. $1999).

The Visual Studio Code product itself ships under a standard Microsoft product license, as it has a small percentage of Microsoft-specific customizations. It’s free despite the commercial license.

This bundle features Microsoft Visual Studio Pro 2022 and a wealth of online coding courses.

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

VS Code has barely been released and can already handle OpenAI's latest language model GPT-5. It should bring advantages in ...