At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced the launch of Visual Studio Code, a lightweight cross-platform code editor for writing modern web and cloud applications that will run ...

“Looking at the initial adopters of [Visual Studio .NET], it’s pretty clear that developers are building Windows form and Visual Basic applications,” says Sridhran.

Adding MCP support to Visual Studio, according to Stephanie Walter, analyst at HyperFRAME Research, will boost developer productivity and integration flexibility.