Visual Studio developers who want to program in non-native languages can now write their own extensions to do so with new support (in preview) for the Language Server Protocol. The Language Server ...

Microsoft has released an updated version of its hugely popular Python Extension for Visual Studio Code. The updated Python extension is available for download from Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS ...

Kotlin is all the rage now that it has been deemed a first-class programming language for developing Android apps. Actually, it's been raging all on its own for a while now, as evidenced by the Stack ...

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The TIOBE index report on programming language popularity each month picks one language for special attention, which in the December edition is Visual Basic.NET because it reached an all-time high.

The Visual Studio Code team continues to add Java functionality to Microsoft's open source, cross-platform code editor via extensions, just launching a new batch for working with Maven, Tomcat and ...

Microsoft has published a stable version of the C++ extension for its popular open-source cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code, with support for Arm-based computers and new productivity ...

NEW YORK—Decades after introducing IntelliSense, the code completion and information features that transform Visual Studio into something more than just a text editor, Microsoft is introducing ...

With the release candidate for the latest version of its Visual Studio IDE, Microsoft is offering better C/C++ operations and has fixed a number of performance issues. Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC, ...