Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET.

Microsoft has announced the public preview launch of Visual Studio Code for the Web, a browser-based version of its free and cross-platform VS Code integrated development environment (IDE).

Visual Studio Code has emerged as the go-to remote development tool in many areas far outside the Microsoft-centric developer ecosystem.

That has changed somewhat. Among other innovations, Visual Studio Code now has good support for editing, running, and debugging Java code through a set of Java-specific extensions.

To use Visual Studio Code for remote development, install VS Code and the Remote Development Extension Pack. If you are connecting to a remote server, set up SSH on your local machine.

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code’s PowerShell tooling is designed primarily to work with the PowerShell 7.2 long-term support release, though the older PowerShell 5.1 is still supported for ...

According to that same Stack Overflow survey cited by Microsoft, 56.6 percent of mobile developers are actually using Android Studio, compared to 36.6 percent who are using Visual Studio Code.