You have a 50/50 shot at accessing a new experiment from the Visual Studio dev team that integrates tutorials with the IDE for an experience that combines guidance with live code.

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

Integrate Docker support and Microsoft's Visual Studio Code with this brief tutorial from expert Jack Wallen.

If you’re an R programmer hoping to try GitHub Copilot, you’ll need to use Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. Here’s how to set up and use VS Code for R.

The Visual Studio Code product itself ships under a standard Microsoft product license, as it has a small percentage of Microsoft-specific customizations. It’s free despite the commercial license.