At its core, VS Code is built on an open source project called Code OSS, published under the permissive MIT license.

About three years ago Microsoft released a new source code editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS. This was named Visual Studio Code. It is way lighter IDE than various editions of the legendary Visual ...

Announced at Microsoft's Build 2015 developers conference a year ago, Visual Studio Code -- the company's lightweight cross-platform code editor -- has hit the 1.0 milestone. Microsoft officials ...

Recently GitHub launched its Github.dev service. If you’re browsing some code in a repo, all you need to do to launch an editor is press “.” or edit the page URL, switching out .com for .dev. This ...

New functionality to quickly launch Visual Studio Code in the browser is being infused into more dev tooling, including the Python extension that uses the Pylance language server for language-specific ...

Microsoft's open source development tool starts as an editor, but can become any kind of IDE—and be extended for most any language—on Mac, Linux, or Windows. If there’s any one tool a software ...

After missing a beat in the monthly release cadence in December, the January release of Visual Studio Code 1.9 is out with a bunch of fixes, updates and new features, including an interactive ...

Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Microsoft’s cross-platform text editor for developers, hit version 1.0 today after about a year in beta. The company says more than 500,000 developers now actively use ...

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Microsoft today is announcing the release of version 1.0 of its open-source Visual Studio Code editor. The cross-platform application now has more than 500,000 monthly active users, after launching ...