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.

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

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 ...

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 Visual Studio team says it has released portions of its Visual Studio Test Platform to the open source community. It's available on Github here, with the docs here.

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 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 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 has released a beta of its Visual Studio Code light-weight code editor, opening it up to extensions and open sourcing the product.