In even simpler terms, it "turns Visual Studio into a Node.js IDE," said Sara Itani, a Microsoft software engineer working with the Visual Studio team, in a blog post. NTVS works with all versions of ...

With NTVS (Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio) released Wednesday, Microsoft is enabling its Windows software development platform for use as a Node.js IDE.

The upgrade also supports the recently released Node.js 6. Version 1.2 of the open source tool enables development of enterprise Node.js applications using Microsoft’s signature Visual Studio IDE.

But it is increasingly only the purists who are saying this. After a year of development, the firm this week announced the release of Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio (NTVS 1.0).

Version 1.5 also works well with Universal Windows Apps, as it readily installs all the files needed to create a UWP app in Node.js. "This option allows familiar Visual Studio experience," writes ...

The Node.js Tools for Visual Studio is available under the Apache open source license. Microsoft continues to say that it is an alpha release and it still has some rough edges.

“One of the things that’s impressed me about the way they integrated node.js into Visual Studio was that they didn’t try to recreate or re-do things that already worked well,” Hanselman ...

This marks the next major milestone for Microsoft’s NTVS open-source plug-in, enabling developers to use Visual Studio 2012/2013 as a Node.js tool for building fast, scalable applications using ...

The Apache-licensed Node.js Tools for Visual Studio offer editing with IntelliSense, Node.js projects, debugging, profiling, and deployment, all inside Microsoft's IDE.

The Node.js Tools for Visual Studio are available under the Apache open source license. Microsoft continues it to be an early alpha release, so it still has some rough edges, but the early reviews ...