Microsoft has willingly created software code extensions that open its previously oh-so-proprietary central programming/editing software framework into a place to work with Node.js developer tools.

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 ...

NTVS is a free, open source plug-in that turns Visual Studio into a Node.js integrated development environment (IDE). The alpha release of NTVS resides on CodePlex, Microsoft’s open source ...

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 ...