Visual Studio Code Distilled: Evolved Code Editing for Windows, macOS, and Linux

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A. Del SoleVisual Studio Code Distilledhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6901-5_1

1. Introducing Visual Studio Code

Alessandro Del Sole¹  

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Cremona, Italy

 

Visual Studio Code is not just another evolved Notepad with syntax colorization and automatic indentation. Instead, it is a very powerful code-focused development environment expressly designed to make it easier to write web, mobile, and cloud applications using languages that are available to different development platforms and to support the application development life cycle with a built-in debugger and integrated support for the popular Git version control engine.

With Visual Studio Code, you can work ...