In this space, I typically write about tools that help you build, manage, test or deploy software development projects. The one part of the project I've mostly ignored thus far is perhaps the most ...

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About a year ago, Microsoft launched Visual Studio Online, its online code editor based on the popular Visual Studio Code project. It’s basically a full code editor and hosted environment that lives ...

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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 ...

Visual Studio has never really been the lightweight option. It's not the tool you open just to tweak a config file or write a ...

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. For decades, when I got to work in ...