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 ...

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 ...

Good documentation is important for any application, and it starts with documenting your code. It helps you and it helps your users. It's no secret that I believe documentation is a crucial element of ...

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 ...

Syntax highlighting and auto-complete with IntelliSense. Smart completions based on variable types, function definitions, and imported modules. It is Extensible and customizable, supports Git commands ...

Fortunately, Visual Studio Code has a little terminal you can use to run commands without needing to swap between windows. And as useful as the terminal is, Microsoft is adding a new feature that will ...

One nifty little feature in the brand-new Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2 is automatic Code Cleanup on Save. Code Cleanup was actually introduced way back in 2018 with Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1.

If you’re starting to develop embedded software using Visual Studio Code (VS Code), a question at the top of your list is, “How do I debug my code?” In a vendor-supplied IDE using Eclipse, debugging ...

Once upon a time, you might have developed for the Commodore 64 using the very machine itself. You’d use the chunky old keyboard, a tape drive, or the 1541 disk drive if you wanted to work faster.