With NTVS (Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio) released Wednesday, Microsoft is enabling its Windows software development platform for use as a Node.js IDE.

NTVS is a free, open source extension for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013, the free Visual Studio Community and Visual Studio Express for Web editions, and Visual Studio Professional. It supports deploying Node.js applications in the Microsoft Azure cloud, and it covers remote debugging to Windows, Linux, or Mac OS platforms.

In development for more than a year, the technology features rich editing, code completions, and interactive window capabilities; npm integration; and advanced debugging and profiling. It supports the io.js fork of Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and JSON in addition to supporting Node.js.

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