The open-source version has a subset of the extensions in Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2015. Microsoft plans to make all the extensions open source over time.

Microsoft shocker: Open-source .NET, free Visual Studio, support for Linux, Mac, Android and iOS by Todd Bishop on November 12, 2014 at 7:32 am Share 2 ...

Visual Studio Community, which is aimed at students, open-source contributors, small companies, startups, and individual developers, has passed 7 million downloads.

GitHub’s open-source Spec Kit formalizes spec-driven development for AI coding agents by providing a CLI, templates, and prompts that move work through specification, plan, tasks, and implementation, ...

Microsoft Announces It Will Open Source .NET, Releases New Visual Studio Tools Microsoft also releases a bevy of next-generation Visual Studio tools, including Visual Studio Community 2013, which is a ...

The Eclipse Foundation just released version 1 of an open-source alternative to Visual Studio Code called Eclipse Theia.

WhiteSource Bolt is now free for GitHub and Microsoft Azure DevOps users. Visual Studio IntelliCode adds support for new languages.

Microsoft today announced it's 'open-sourcing the full .NET server core stack and introducing a new free and fully featured edition of Visual Studio.' ...

Microsoft open sourced a Java debugger it developed for the lightweight, open source Visual Studio Code editor. About a month ago, the company released the VS Code extension to provide Java debugging, ...

Microsoft is open sourcing WPF, Windows Forms and Win UI via GitHub and making available the first public preview of Visual Studio 2019.