Introduction
Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's executive vice-president of cloud and enterprise introduced Visual Studio Code at Microsoft Build 2015 conference held on Wednesday. Visual Studio Code is the first code editor and first cross-platform development tool supported by OSX, Linux and Windows in the Visual Studio Family. Visual Studio Code provides built-in support for ASP.NET 5 development with C#, Node.js as well as for web technologies such as HTML, CSS, Less, SASS and JSON and so on.
Installation Procedure
Go to https://code.visualstudio.com/ and click on the Code for Windows button.
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Or go to https://www.visualstudio.com/products/code-vs and click on the Download Code button.
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Select the operating system/platform on which you want to install (the code is free and available for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows). I will install it on my Windows Operating System.
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After the Downloading VSCodeSetup.exe (58 MB approx), double-click on setup. It will hardly take 1 minute to complete the installation.
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Installation Completed Successfully. We are ready to explore its cool features.
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The VSCode user interface is divided into the following 4 areas:
- Editor
- Sidebar
- Statusbar
- Viewbar
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Features
- Command Palette
Using the Command Palette, you can access all the functionality of VSCode. Press Ctrl+Shift+P or F1 to open the Command Palette.
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- Multi-Cursor
VSCode has support for Multiple cursors. You can edit the same file at multiple places by pressing Alt+Click to add another cursor (much similar to the Sublime Editor).
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- IntelliSense and Syntax coloring
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- Debugging, Themes Customization and many other features.
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For more information, visit Visual Studio Docs
I hope you like it. Thanks.