Visual Studio Code, the open source .NET Framework, and the inclusion of non-Microsoft properties like Apache Cordova within Visual Studio 2017 are confirmations of this new community-driven era.

Microsoft, after all, had never offered a code editor for OS X and Linux before — and definitely not under the Visual Studio brand.

Other improvements include the ability to step through lambda expressions in Watch windows, Visual Studio Remote Tools to run, debug, and test an application running on a different computer, built-in ...

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 ...