Visual Studio has never really been the lightweight option. It's not the tool you open just to tweak a config file or write a ...

Cleaner code with AI assist.

Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET. Microsoft’s Visual Studio is its primary development ...

PowerShell is now a lot more than a system management tool for Windows. The latest releases of PowerShell are built on the current cross-platform .NET and support macOS and Linux alongside the ...

Microsoft's Data API Builder is designed to help developers expose database objects through REST and GraphQL without building a full data access layer from scratch. In this Q&A, Steve Jones previews ...

Editor's note: I am pleased to bring you a new young blogger on Planet Analog, Tyler Deuty. He will be occasionally blogging and bringing us a really good perspective ...

About three years ago Microsoft released a new source code editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS. This was named Visual Studio Code. It is way lighter IDE than various editions of the legendary Visual ...