What this book covers
Chapter 1, Getting Started with Visual Studio Code, explains the key features of VS Code as an editor and how it differs from IDEs. The chapter covers VS Code in terms of the overall layout, command line options, multi-cursor editing, code refactoring, code navigation and user snippets among others.
Chapter 2, Extensions in Visual Studio Code. A key feature that makes Visual Studio Code more than just an editor is its extensibility framework. This allows the developer to add extensions relevant to their needs. This chapter will explain the extensibility framework, look at some important extensions, and explore how to add, delete, and configure extensions.
Chapter 3, Building a Multi-Platform Backend Using Visual Studio Code, starts off discussing the architecture and then building microservices on different platforms for the Job Ordering System we will develop in this part of the book. This will help you understand how the Visual Studio Code editor can be used in real-life scenarios.
Chapter 4, Building a Service in .NET Core and Exploring Dapr, develops a .NET Core hosted service to provide integration between different services. Communication is established between these services using a message broker system.
Chapter 5, Building a Web-Based Frontend Application with Angular, uses Visual Studio Code to develop a client-side web application and consumes the backend services developed in the previous chapters. The chapter will focus on how Visual Studio Code can be the editor of choice for frontend development.
Chapter 6, Debugging Techniques, focuses on exploring various debugging features of VS Code by setting up the environment for different technologies. The chapter also discusses different ways of launching the VS Code debugger.
Chapter 7, Deploying Applications on Azure, focuses on containerizing applications using Docker as the container technology and deploying to Azure Kubernetes Services for container orchestration scenarios.
Chapter 8, Git and Azure DevOps, focuses on the use of Git, understanding Git model and different strategies for source code version management. It also explores Azure DevOps for enabling CI/CD for automated build and deployment scenarios
Chapter 9, Creating Custom Extensions in Visual Studio Code, is about exploring the extension framework for extending VS Code functionality by developing custom extensions. The chapter takes you through the steps for building various types of extension such as using TypeScript, Code snippet and theme extension.
Chapter 10, Remote Development in Visual Studio Code, focuses on exploring the remote development feature of VS Code by developing applications on remote machines, containers and on cloud using GitHub Codespaces.