Last November, Microsoft introduced a new program for developers, Visual Studio Dev Essentials, in order to provide them with all the tools needed to create, build and deploy apps on any platform.

You have a 50/50 shot at accessing a new experiment from the Visual Studio dev team that integrates tutorials with the IDE for an experience that combines guidance with live code.

Believe it or not you can use Microsoft's Visual Studio Code from your web browser, or at least, versions of it.

Microsoft added new Web app tutorials -- covering Django and Flask -- to its Python documentation for Visual Studio and its open source little cousin, the cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor. As ...

Duration: 24 minutes, 44 seconds For each tutorial lesson, there are both a Visual Basic and a C# version available. The Express Edition betas are currently available for download through MSDN lab.