It's been another great year for new development tools and technologies. Here are some that bring cross-platform development languages or capabilities into Visual Studio. As 2015 comes to a close, I ...

A new version of Microsoft’s integrated development environment (IDE) goes live today with the release of Visual Studio 2019 and its cousin Visual Studio 2019 for Mac. Visual Studio is in a bit of a ...

Just before Stack Overflow deemed Python the "fastest-growing major programming language," Microsoft conveniently detailed updates for using the language in the new Visual Studio 15.4 Preview 1. Even ...

Microsoft's open source development tool starts as an editor, but can become any kind of IDE—and be extended for most any language—on Mac, Linux, or Windows. If there’s any one tool a software ...

Microsoft has pulled back the drapes on Pylance, a Visual Studio Code extension for faster and more complete Python language support in that popular code editor. Pylance doesn’t replace the existing ...

Microsoft is continuing its commitment to Python with the release of the Python Language Server. It is currently available as part of the July release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code, ...