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 on OS X, Linux and Windows.

Microsoft, after all, had never offered a code editor for OS X and Linux before — and definitely not under the Visual Studio brand. When Microsoft launched the application, it was still missing ...

NEW YORK—Developers can now debug apps running on Linux servers ... to try to make Visual Studio the best development environment around. Extensions for Visual Studio Code are found in a new ...

Visual Studio can now be used to remotely debug Linux applications using the GDB debugger. The Visual Studio Code editor that Microsoft released for Linux earlier this year was also open-sourced.

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.

Let me show you. SEE: Serverless computing: A guide for IT leaders (TechRepublic Premium) You can create a networked instance of Visual Studio Code on a Linux or macOS machine, or using a Docker ...

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 ...

Breaking out of its Windows ecosystem, Microsoft has introduced a version of the Visual Studio development ... Mac and Linux. While the source code for the cross-platform .Net has been available ...

That’s where Visual Studio Code comes in. Able to run on Windows, Linux, or Mac, exceedingly extensible, with excellent support for remote development, Visual Studio Code fills many of the gaps ...

Microsoft launched Visual Studio Code at the Build Developer Conference 2015, making it the company’s first true cross-platform free code editor. As a direct competition to text and code editors ...