Visual Studio Magazine

Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio Marketplace Avoids Decommission

Open source champion Eclipse Foundation is advancing the Open VSX Registry, a vendor-neutral, community-supported alternative to the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace. However, while Microsoft's ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Open Source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' Exits Beta to Challenge Visual Studio Code

Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it ...
VentureBeat

Microsoft open-sources Visual Studio Code, launches free Visual Studio Dev Essentials program

Microsoft today unleashed a torrent of news at its Connect(); 2015 developer event in New York City. The company open-sourced Visual Studio Code, launched a free Visual Studio Dev Essentials program, ...
Neowin

Gitpod's open-source OpenVSCode Server can now run Visual Studio Code in the browser

Gitpod has announced that it is offering a browser-based integrated development environment (IDE) via OpenVSCode Server, which is an open source implementation of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. One ...
CRN

Microsoft To Open Visual Studio Source Code To Top Partners

Microsoft also announced two significant licensing changes around Visual Studio that will be a boon for partners. First, the company said it will soon initiate a shared-source licensing program for ...