Visual Studio Code is a great, free, cross-platform, open source code editor with an extensive library of prebuilt extensions for all kinds of useful, add-on functionality. Sometimes, however, you don ...

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript ...

Microsoft’s 2018 roadmap for its open source Visual Studio Code code editor includes better performance, reduced memory consumption, and more support for JavaScript and TypeScript. The ...

Just as the Visual Studio team started rolling out the October 2016 Build version 1.7 this week, the team did an about-face with an incremental 'recovery build' update that disables JavaScript ...

Microsoft VS Code 1.42 is out: New debug tools for TypeScript, JavaScript, Chrome Microsoft delivers new improvements and fixes for its popular cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code.

Mark Michaelis walks you through the Visual Studio tooling and project setup you'll need to get the most out of your JavaScript unit testing.

Microsoft updates Visual Studio Code monthly. This changelog tracks the new features and improvements through version 1.50.

As promised in February, Microsoft embraced the wildly popular React JavaScript library in Visual Studio 2015 by providing built-in support for its JSX syntax. So I took it for a spin. It works.

Visual Studio Code, the popular development text editor and IDE, has rolled out its big July 2025 release. The v1.103 update adds new Git and terminal integrations, better language support, and more.

Image: WebStorm What is Visual Studio Code? Visual Studio Code is a free, popular, and lightweight source code editor for many languages. Supported languages include JavaScript, Java, C++, and Python.