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 venerable C# programming language is in the news this week as the company announced a new foundational certification one day before careers site Dice cited advice to become a C# developer.

C# was chosen by nearly 20 percent of respondents, putting it in fourth place behind JavaScript, Python and Java. When asked what languages they planned on learning next, C# was listed by 13.5 percent ...

There are lots of reasons. While C# is tied to the Windows environment, it’s cross-platform so that you can learn it just as well on a Mac as a PC, and it opens many doors in the industry.

In the third preview of Visual Studio 17.5, Microsoft added spell-checking functionality for C#, C++, and Markdown files. If you correct any identifiers it will auto-refactor your code.