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.

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