A CPP file contains C++ programming code you must compile before you can run the file's code on your Windows system. You use Visual Studio to compile the CPP code on Windows. The compiling process ...

Imagine platform-neutral, language-agnostic tools for writing code. Awesome, yes, but using tools like Visual Studio Code to compose your programmatic masterpiece will require a bit of rethinking.

Microsoft has been working to become more of a universal open source platform that everybody can use. Shaking off the feeling that once you’re using Microsoft, you’re stuck with all things Microsoft, ...