Microsoft's open-source Visual Studio Code is growing hand in hand with Python.

Microsoft announced HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code is now generally available, letting coders do Big Data analytics right from within the cross-platform, open source code editor.

The Python Extension for Visual Studio Code -- installed more than 9.3 million times -- has received an update that closes some 70 issues.

Some of the earliest signs that Visual Studio 2019 is on the way can be spied over at GitHub, the popular online code repository that Microsoft is acquiring for $7.5 billion in company stock.

The open source Visual Studio Code has become the No. 1 option for many developers, with a vast extension library that effectively turns the lightweight, cross-platform editor into a full-fledged ...

Microsoft has released new versions of Visual Studio 2019 for both Windows and Mac, delivering new capabilities for developers on both platforms. The first preview of version 16.7 is also available.