The August 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 is now out, offering new AI capabilities and even ways to scale back AI ...

With JetBrains making its Rider and WebStorm IDEs freely available for non-commercial use, Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition has a new competitor, not to mention Visual Studio Code. So what's a ...

The secret sauce of Microsoft's cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor is the vast array of extensions available in the marketplace that provide all manner of functionality, basically almost turning ...

"Visual Studio Code is a very popular development tool, with great investment and support from Microsoft and the open-source community," said Marcey.

Microsoft is continuing to bang the AI drum with its developer tools, with its latest announcement that VS Code is shipping as part of the Anaconda Python distribution.

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide.