Preview: Minimap
A Minimap gives you a high level overview of your source code which is very useful for quick navigation and code understanding. To enable VS Code’s Minimap, set editor.minimap.enabled: true to turn on the rendering of a Minimap for the current file.

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_10#_preview-minimap

For Cortana!
Cortana Devices SDK:
Cortana Skills Kit:
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/13/cortana-skills-kit-cortana-devices-sdk-announcement/#PJwh3kkso647IhgB.97

For Chat Bots.
Microsoft Bot Framework:
Bot Framework SDK
New Azure BOT service!
Azure Bot Services