As near as I can tell, very few developers create their own Visual Studio code snippets. There's a reason for that: the XML you have to wrap around code snippet is a real pain to write. Fortunately, ...

Microsoft today launched a new plugin for Visual Studio called Bing Developer Assistant. The tool, which is available for both Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013, helps developers find code ...

I'm not a big user of code snippets, but I know developers who are. I've noticed those developers often don't use the default value supplied for the variable part of the snippet (What! All your ...

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 ...

If you want to set and use Deepseek-R1 in Visual Studio Code, follow the steps below. Install Visual Studio Code Download Ollama Install the CodeGPT Extension Install DeepSeek models Use DeepSeek in ...

What if the tools you’ve relied on for years suddenly became something entirely different? That’s the reality developers are waking up to as Visual Studio Code, once heralded as a lightweight and ...

About three years ago Microsoft released a new source code editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS. This was named Visual Studio Code. It is way lighter IDE than various editions of the legendary Visual ...

PowerShell is now a lot more than a system management tool for Windows. The latest releases of PowerShell are built on the current cross-platform .NET and support macOS and Linux alongside the ...

IDE and developer tools biz JetBrains believes training AI models on public datasets is insufficient, and is offering free product licenses to organizations that are willing to share detailed ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...