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 ...

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. As I detailed in my recent article "A TypeScript Primer," ...

The big debate in Windows development has always been how to build your application’s user interface. We’ve been spoiled for choice, and every time Microsoft unveils a new front-end framework we’re ...

Microsoft has released a January update of its popular open-source cross-platform Visual Studio Code (VS Code) code editor. VS Code version 1.42 is available today for Windows 10, macOS, and Linux ...

The January 2018 update of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor incorporates the new TypeScript 2.7.1 edition, allowing for quicker fixing of errors in TypeScript and even regular JavaScript files.

VS Code combines impressive Java support with first-class support for JavaScript and other stacks, making a compelling alternative to traditional IDEs. Let’s try it with Spring and Svelte. For years, ...

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.