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13. Working with Visual Studio Code

Adam Freeman

(1)Milton Keynes MK6 3PA, UK

In this chapter, I show you how to create an ASP.NET Core MVC application using Visual Studio Code, which is an open source, cross-platform editor produced by Microsoft. Despite the name, Visual Studio Code is unrelated to Visual Studio and is based on the Electron framework, which is used by the Atom editor popular with developers of other web application frameworks such as Angular.

Visual Studio Code supports Windows, OS X/macOS and the most popular Linux distributions. Visual Studio Code is in its early days, and not all of the features work as they should; however, Microsoft makes ...

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