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

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A. Del SoleVisual Studio Code Distilledhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9484-0_6

6. Installing and Managing Extensions

Alessandro Del Sole¹  

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Cremona, Italy

 

Extensibility is one of the key features in Visual Studio Code, because you can add tools, languages, code snippets, debuggers, key bindings, and themes. Extensibility is especially beneficial in the area of languages, because Visual Studio Code enables you to extend the code editor with specific syntax support, which can also include IntelliSense, code snippets, and code refactoring.

This all means that Visual Studio Code has open support for any language and any tool on any platform, opening the ...