Microsoft’s flagship IDE Visual Studio has released a new tool, IntelliCode, to the open-source-based, cross-platform VS Code editor. IntelliCode has been installed more than 27 million times and improves upon the code-completion capabilities of IntelliSense in several ways. It scans thousands of open source GitHub repos to find the code snippets most likely to be used and can also do whole-line code completions. Recently, IntelliCode has gained the ability to provide instant API code examples.