The success of VS Code -- along with the evolution of the open source, cross-platform .NET Core -- provides the signature theme of 2018 in the Microsoft developer ecosystem.

Microsoft's flagship Visual Studio IDE is continuing to track the extension model introduced with the company's open source Visual Studio Code editor, most recently adding support for debug adapters.

Renesas announced that customers can now use Microsoft® Visual Studio Code to program all Renesas microcontrollers (MCUs) and microprocessors (MPUs).

For example, imagine creating a Cordova project using Ionic templates with Visual Studio on a Windows machine, then opening it on an OS X or Linux machine using Visual Studio Code -- making some edits ...

Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET.

On Windows, Visual Studio Code’s base install footprint is about 376 MB; for Theia IDE, it’s 658 MB. This leads to another major difference between Theia IDE and VS Code.

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight IDE from Microsoft for developers to write code in a variety of languages like Python, PHP and more. It has inbuilt support for Git as well.

Download Visual Studio Code Insider. Learn how to sync settings, run public & insider versions together. Difference with Visual Studio IDE also discussed.

Did you know you can use Microsoft Visual Studio Code on any machine just from a web browser? Here's how.