Visual Studio Live! Redmond 2016: Windows for Makers -- Raspberry Pi, Arduino & IoT In this session with Microsoft Senior Technical Evangelist Nick Landry, you'll learn about the tools, how to get ...

At its Build developer conference, 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 ...

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.

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.