With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA. There was a time when your choices for Java IDEs were ...

Microsoft has introduced Visual Studio Code for Education, a new computer science instruction platform that takes students beyond beginner coding and teaches them tools used by professional developers ...

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 ...

If you’re a developer, you know that working quickly and effectively is key to success. Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a popular tool that can be fine-tuned for use without a mouse, making your coding ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Visual Studio 2026 is no longer a preview or a promise, it is a shipping product that developers can install today. Microsoft is positioning this release as a generational reset for its flagship IDE, ...

GitHub Copilot continues to evolve in both Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, offering developers increasingly intelligent, context-aware tools that go far beyond basic autocomplete. The latest ...

The October update of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) for Java has arrived with lots of improvements in the code editing and debugging experience, thanks to support for the recently released ...

Note that GitHub Copilot isn’t optimized for R; the documentation says Copilot works “especially well” for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, C#, and C++. However, Copilot does make R code ...

Visual Studio Code is an advanced editor that supports just about every programming language in use today. That is why Visual Studio Code has more buttons, knobs, and switches than a Martian starship.

Microsoft's app development software Visual Studio Code has been updated to run natively on Apple Silicon M1. "We are happy to announce our first release of stable Apple Silicon builds [with] this ...