Let's catch up with the latest tools and extensions available for Visual Studio 2015 and the recently released Visual Studio 2017. It's been a while since I've done a roundup of new, general-purpose ...

Microsoft is updating how you build Visual Studio extensions, with new APIs and the ability to run extensions outside of the Visual Studio process. Notwithstanding the immense popularity of the Visual ...

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From Docker and Git integrations to Markdown and XML support to live collaboration, these add-ons for Visual Studio Code complement any workload Visual Studio Code isn’t just a text editor. It’s an ...

If you’re like most embedded developers, you probably use your silicon vendor's integrated development environment. These IDEs come packed with many features, but they often aren’t customizable to fit ...

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All developers want to automate menial, repetitive tasks. When you can automate tasks, it boosts productivity and cuts down on potential problems that might occur when performing tasks manually. One ...

The Glassworm campaign, which first emerged on the OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio marketplaces in October, is now in its third wave, with 24 new packages added on the two platforms.

Now that Visual Studio 2017 has been out in the world for a few months, I'm seeing a lot of new extensions written either specifically for the latest release of the IDE or updated with support for ...