With 14 million users, Microsoft's open source cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code is one of its key tools for keeping developers engaged with its future in the cloud.

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

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide.

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The IE 9 F12 tools help with creating, testing and administering IE sites using these standards. Microsoft also provided some fairly limited HTML5 support in Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1.

So I create a Visual Studio .Net web form on a server and can get that to run just fine. I then switch to the html view of the page and try to add some javascript buttons using the <script> tags ...