Why does Visual Studio need a JavaScript language service? The Visual Studio team explains in a blog post that it comes down to better JavaScript coding efficiency.

Visual Studio-backed programming languages fared well in the latest TIOBE Index popularity report, with Visual Basic and R jumping up in the rankings and TypeScript cracking the top 100 for the first ...

Microsoft intends to make JavaScript development easier in Visual Studio 11 by significantly enhancing Intellisense, debugging support, editor functionality, and more.

As promised in February, Microsoft embraced the wildly popular React JavaScript library in Visual Studio 2015 by providing built-in support for its JSX syntax. So I took it for a spin. It works.

And More There are plenty more code snippet packages to download for JavaScript, as the Visual Studio Marketplace lists 105 such offerings (just searching for "JavaScript") in the Snippets category ...

Microsoft updated its Visual Studio toolset by making its TypeScript superset of JavaScript a first class supported language on the platform.

WinJS JavaScript toolbox focuses on 'universal experiences' for Windows 10, while Visual Studio will get Enterprise, Professional, and Community editions Microsoft is making more accommodations ...

Meanwhile, Visual Studio Code or VS Code, Microsoft's lightweight cross-platform code editor has become a hit with developers at Google and now has 4.5 million users. Microsoft of course now owns ...

Visual Studio Live Share gives you pair programming without the shared keyboards Microsoft continues to build best all-in-one dev ops platform for mobile development.