VS Code is a cross-platform, command-line, and file-folder editor. It can be installed on Windows, Linux, or macOS. We can see VS Code as a cross-platform, lightweight version of VS.
First of all, let's download VS Code from https://code.visualstudio.com/:
- Let's launch VS Code by double-clicking on
Code
in theVSCode-linux-x64
folder:
This will open VS Code:
We can press F1 to make the command palette appear, which gives you access to all the functionality of VS Code.
This way, you can also browse and install extensions by typing the extension.
Note
To install extensions, you can go to the VS Marketplace (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/#VSCode).
Now, we will open the project we created with the Yeoman scaffolding generator (recipe three) into VS Code, and we will ensure that we have installed dotnet CLI.
- Let's type F1 to open the command-line tool in VS Code and type
.NET
to intellisense propose us the option to restore packages with...