Installation Begins
There is now a new choice of code editor, Visual Studio Code, where one can build and debug modern web and cloud applications. It is free and available for Linux (I find this a good reason to give Linux a try as well :)), Mac OSX and Windows. Visual Studio Code is the first code editor and first cross-platform development tool supporting OSX, Linux and Windows in the Visual Studio family.
First Start
Here are the features that made me feel like I should switch to it from Sublime Text as my basic Text Editor.
- Fast Code Editor.
- Navigation Sidebar.
- Syntax highlighting.
- Always-On Intellisense.
- Code Refactoring.
- Great tooling support for C#, ASP.NET, Node.JS, HTML, CSS, LESS, SASS and JSON and so on.
- Easy Integration with Package Managers and Repositories (it understands git!).
The editor is composed of a faster version of an HTML-based editor that has powered the “Monaco” cloud editor, Internet Explorer's F12 Tools and other projects. So you can just hit F12 and you have a full-blown Google Chrome kind of developer tool that is readily available for you just in case you need to inspect some element or check for any error in the console.
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Google Chrome like Developer Tools console
Nice Find/Replace window
![VisualStudioCode_Awesome_Search_Capability]()
It also offers you git features when you open a folder with git configuration available or simply, a git repository.
If you like Auto save feature of the code editors, you're gonna love it.
![VisualStudioCode_EnableAutoSave]()
Visual Studio Code offers the following Auto Save feature:
The Command palette has all the relevant commands available for use.
The following is the current version info:
Beyond that, Intellisense works just great. Will be sharing more details on usage soon.