In this space, I typically write about tools that help you build, manage, test or deploy software development projects. The one part of the project I've mostly ignored thus far is perhaps the most ...

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a flexible, cross-platform editor that can be transformed into a full-blown IDE for most any language or workflow. Over the past few years, it has exploded in ...

Visual Studio is all about making the developer coding experience more streamlined, allowing you to get to elements of the IDE that matter to you most. Customizing the Start Page is, well, a good ...

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 ...

Python libraries are pre-written collections of code designed to simplify programming by providing ready-made functions for specific tasks. They eliminate the need to write repetitive code and cover ...

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 ...

Coding can be both exhilarating and exhausting. One moment, you’re deep in the flow, solving complex problems, and the next, you’re bogged down by repetitive tasks or hunting for snippets across ...

Visual Studio 2026 brings faster performance, new C# and C++ Copilot agents, and seamless compatibility with existing ...