At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced the launch of Visual Studio Code, a lightweight cross-platform code editor for writing modern web and cloud applications that will run on ...

Kotlin is all the rage now that it has been deemed a first-class programming language for developing Android apps. Actually, it's been raging all on its own for a while now, as evidenced by the Stack ...

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...

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 ...

Brace pair colorization is a big hit with developers in the new Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 1, which borrowed the idea from its open-source-based cousin, Visual Studio Code. Brace (or bracket) ...

Code clone analysis is a new feature available in Visual Studio 11 (and currently available in the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview) that allows for identification of similar code sections. These ...