Next time you're starting a new development project, skip the tedious configuration and setup with these handy templates.

The January release of Visual Studio Code 1.9 is out with a bunch of fixes, updates and new features, including a new interactive playground that lets developers try out editing features immediately.

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

Microsoft has released a beta of its Visual Studio Code light-weight code editor, opening it up to extensions and open sourcing the product.