Roman Samborskyi / Shutterstock Microsoft is offering a Visual Studio Code extension to help developers use the Project Tye .NET tool for building microservices and distributed applications. Available in a preview form from the Visual Studio Marketplace, the extension assists with viewing, running, and debugging applications from within the Visual Studio Code editor. The extension is positioned as a continuation of the Tye experiment, intended to provide insight into cloud-native tool experiences. [ With the extension, services are displayed in the Tye explorer interface as soon as the Tye application is running. From the explorer, developers can view logs for services, browse to services with possible endpoints, or attach a debugger to available .NET services. A link is included to navigate to the browser-based Tye dashboard.