Public preview of Microsoft’s C++ tools for the AI coding assistant are available in Visual Studio 2026 Insiders.

About a year ago, Microsoft launched Visual Studio Online, its online code editor based on the popular Visual Studio Code project. It’s basically a full code editor and hosted environment that lives ...

Microsoft has released a new version of its hit Python extension for its cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that makes its Pylance language server the default. Microsoft started ...

According to Microsoft, the decision to open source GitHub Copilot Chat stems from a growing demand for transparency in how AI-assisted developer tools work -- particularly around prompt engineering, ...

At Microsoft Build, there were not only the big announcements, which mainly revolved around the topic of artificial intelligence (AI), but also smaller innovations, including some open-source projects ...

Microsoft is open sourcing Visual Studio (VS) Code, its light-weight code editor that works on Windows, Mac OS and Linux machines. Microsoft officials made the announcement on the first day of its two ...

Recently GitHub launched its Github.dev service. If you’re browsing some code in a repo, all you need to do to launch an editor is press “.” or edit the page URL, switching out .com for .dev. This ...

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built ...

Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s no-cost and open source developer-oriented editor and debugger, has reached version 1.0. Over its short life, the editor has made itself remarkably popular, with ...

To use Microsoft Editor in Edge browser, you need to first sign in with your Microsoft account. But before that, you should add the extension to the Edge toolbar to make it more convenient to access ...

Code editors are complex and demanding pieces of software, but from a business standpoint, they’re notoriously difficult to monetize. At the same time, they haven’t kept pace with recent trends like ...