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Visual Studio Code Description

Code editing. Redefined Free. Open source. It runs everywhere. IntelliSense provides smart completions that go beyond syntax highlighting and autocomplete. It uses variable types, function definitions and imported modules to provide intelligent completions. You can debug code directly from the editor. You can attach or launch your apps, and debug with breakpoints, call stacks and an interactive console. It's never been easier to work with Git or other SCM providers. The editor allows you to review diffs and stage files, as well as make commits. Pull and push from any hosted SCM service. Want even more features? To add languages, themes, debuggers and connect to other services, install extensions. Extensions are separate processes that don't slow down your editor. Learn more about extensions. Microsoft Azure allows you to deploy and host your React (Angular), Vue, Node (and many more!) applications. Sites can store and query relational or document-based data and scale with serverless computing.

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Company:
Microsoft
Year Founded:
1975
Headquarters:
United States
Website:
code.visualstudio.com

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Product Details

Platforms
SaaS
Windows
Mac
Linux
Type of Training
Documentation
Customer Support
Online

Visual Studio Code Features and Options

Source Code Management Software

Access Controls/Permissions
Bug Tracking
Build Automation
Change Management
Code Review
Collaboration
Continuous Integration
Repository Management
Version Control

Text Editors

API
Auto-Complete
Code Folding
Column Editing
Customizable Themes
Debugging
Formatting / Table Editing
Keyboard Shortcuts
Multi-Monitor Editing
Syntax Highlighting
WYSIWYG

Software Documentation Tool

Access Roles / User Permissions
Automatic Documentation Generation
Collaboration Tools
Docs Web Hosting
Feedback Capture
Markdown Support
Multiple Formats Support
Multiple Versions Support
Version Control
WYSIWIG Editor
Webhooks
reStructured Text Support

Code Editors

API
Auto-Complete
Code Folding
Column Editing
Customizable Themes
Debugging
Formatting / Table Editing
Keyboard Shortcuts
Multi-Monitor Editing
Syntax Highlighting
WYSIWYG
  • Name: Anis A.
    Job Title: Ownership Workflow Coordinator
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Ideal for Flexible Code Development and Editing

    Date: Jan 19 2024

    Summary: Developers have come to love Visual Studio Code, a feature-rich and extremely adaptable code editor. It is the best option for a variety of development jobs due to its rich extension ecosystem, vast language support, and cross-platform compatibility.

    Positive: Linux, macOS, and Windows are among the operating systems that Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is compatible with. Its cross-platform compatibility makes it a flexible option for developers working in various contexts.

    Negative: VS Code could be thought to be less efficient for really big projects when compared to more complex IDEs. Nevertheless, the size and complexity of any project will determine this.

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  • Name: Ankit K.
    Job Title: Systems Engineer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1,000 - 4,999
    Features
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Lightweight and reliable code editor.

    Date: Aug 12 2022

    Summary: Overall, Visual Studio Code is one of the most reliable and feature rich code editor. It has large community and support all the major languages.

    Positive: 1. It has an excellent set of tools for debugging and testing the code.
    2. It can be customized heavily from the settings or from the configuration files.
    3. Furthermore, it has a lot of extensions available on the extension store to increase the features and functionality of the code editor.
    4. It supports all the major programming languages and frameworks.
    5. It is extremely light on the system.

    Negative: It does not have dedicated build tools available on the options and to use that the user has to use command in the terminal.

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  • Name: Joshua P.
    Job Title: Project Leader
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Yearly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Visual Studio Code

    Date: Jul 11 2022

    Summary: Simply put, I love this tool. The community extensions are extremely nice and well organized. The user interface aesthetic does not bother my eyes unlike many other similar applications and its inbuilt features while tough to get a grasp on at first are very much worth adjusting to, the benefits for this compared to less powerful editors is just too great.

    Positive: Excellent tool for coding, this is my go-to tool for coding and has been since early 2020. The file organization, ability to open folders, community extensions for a variety of file types and project types just makes this an extremely well made and useful tool. I have used this tool on a near daily basis for over two years at this point and I have very little issues with it that have only been further reduced as I further understand the features and UI layout of the software.

    I especially love the user interface aesthetic, in early 2020 I suffered from a retinal detachment which made my vision much more sensitive to light and certain colors among other things. The user interface and color scheme of the tool is excellent and greatly helps me with eye strain when I am coding.

    Negative: I have very little complaints about the tool. My only major gripe in comparison to say other text editors is the ability to find certain features may be difficult for new users, with this said adjusting to the layout is very much worth it.

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  • Name: Balwinder B.
    Job Title: SDE
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1,000 - 4,999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Smooth and lightweight code editor for daily programming.

    Date: Jun 18 2022

    Summary: Overall, Visual Studio Code is a smooth open source code editor with many useful features and large community support. It is also available on all the platforms.

    Positive: - It is a lightweight code editor with all the necessary features required for programming and software development.
    - It has support for all the major programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, C, Python.
    - Switching between files and debugging works flawlessly without any lags.
    - It has built in code formatter that works with all the major languages.
    - It is stable and has large community support.

    Negative: - I didn't find any problems or cons in Visual Studio Code in my usage.

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  • Name: Meenakshi S.
    Job Title: React Dev
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
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    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    The best code editor for front end developers.

    Date: Jan 16 2022

    Summary: Overall, Visual Studio Code is the best code editor available, it is feature rich and supports all the frameworks and libraries.

    Positive: - Every library and frameworks runs more smoothly than any other code editor or IDE because of it easy to use UI.
    - It has some of the best extensions available to assist during development and increasing productivity.
    - Any application can be coded end to end, from front end to back end.
    - It can be heavily customized according to the user's preference.

    Negative: - I haven't faced any shortcoming or cons in my usage. The application is just perfection.

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  • Name: Zeeshan I.
    Job Title: Java Developer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
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    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Most versatile code editor.

    Date: Dec 22 2021

    Summary: Overall, Visual Studio Code is the best code editor in terms of simplicity and the features. It is lightweight and supports all the major programming languages and frameworks.

    Positive: 1. Visual Studio Code is the best code editor to do programming on any language because of its features and extensions and plugins support.
    2. The user interface of the application is simple and intuitive despite being a feature rich code editor.
    3. It allows the user to create branch and push merge request within the application.
    4. It can be customized easily according to the user's preference.

    Negative: 1. The application starts to perform slow if the user has installed more than ten or fifteen extensions.

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  • Name: Subhan A.
    Job Title: React Developer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 500 - 999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    A resourceful and lightweight code editor.

    Date: Nov 20 2021

    Summary: Overall, Visual Studio Code is a lightweight code editor that works well in every system. It supports all the frameworks and programming languages and can be heavily customized by using extensions and plugins.

    Positive: - Visual Studio Code allows the user to develop on any framework because of the wide frameworks and library support.
    - It allows the users to version control the code directly from the code.
    - The extension store has all the popular extension available on it.
    - The auto save feature comes very handy during sudden power cuts or system shutdowns and save the code from being deleted.
    - It is a lightweight code editor and performs on every system with any configuration.

    Negative: - Honestly, there isn't any con that I have faced in my usage of this application.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Software Engineer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 20,000 or More
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    The best all-round code editor and IDE

    Date: Nov 08 2021

    Summary: It's absolutely full of features and you can basically install any kind of extension for any kind of language, very powerful.

    Positive: It is very powerful through extension support, can be used with virtually any programming language, I like the dark mode, can be integrated with other tools, like the Android Emulator.

    Negative: The search feature can be a little slow on larger projects and as a beginner it's a little bit harder to configure it just the way you want it, with new compiler toolset.

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  • Name: Mohd T.
    Job Title: Software Engineer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 500 - 999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    The Absolute Best IDE For Any OS.

    Date: Nov 06 2021

    Summary: Overall, It is the most lightweight IDE that is feature packed and supports all the languages and frameworks. The user interface is user-friendly and easily customizable.

    Positive: - It supports customizable more than any IDE in terms of features extensions and themes.
    - The user interface is clean and refined, and even after having a huge amount of features, the UI does not feel cluttered or messy.
    - It supports almost all the programming languages and frameworks.
    - The debugging logs are detailed and easily reachable, it also has an inbuilt console.
    - It can also be used as a live server with the helps of extension while building web apps.
    - The projects can be version controlled from within the software, saving a lot of user's time.
    - The settings can either be applied for a specific workspace or for the whole software.
    - It is the most lightweight IDE that I have ever used.

    Negative: - After installing more than 15 extension the performance decreases drastically.

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  • Name: Ibrahim S.
    Job Title: Associate Software Developer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Visual Studio Code helps in efficiency and productivity.

    Date: Sep 30 2021

    Summary: Visual Studio Code is one of the best code editors available out there. It has a modern and highly customizable user interface, and it supports the largest amount of extensions and plugins.

    Positive: 1. Visual Studio Code is an efficient and organized code editor with a user-friendly user interface.
    2. It has one of the largest extension store and support.
    3. The VS Code intellisence works in real-time by giving code suggestion and underline syntax errors.
    4. VS Code can be highly customized by applying various color themes and plugins.

    Negative: 1. Its suggestion feature gets a bit slow when it has more than 20 extensions installed.

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  • Name: Chandra S.
    Job Title: UX Developer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 500 - 999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    A productive IDE.

    Date: Aug 07 2021

    Summary: Overall, Visual Studio Code is a feature-packed and highly customizable IDE for development in any language.

    Positive: - It has thousands of useful extensions in its native store that could be easily installed.
    - The error detection and syntax highlighting features works flawlessly with every language.
    - It is highly customizable in every aspect, that result in increased development pace.

    Negative: - It does not contain any major flaws or drawback, but a more advanced debugging feature would be appreciated.

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  • Name: Areeqa H.
    Job Title: DevOps Engineer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 500 - 999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    The best code editor for any language.

    Date: Jul 21 2021

    Summary: Overall, Visual Studio Code is an all-in-one code editor to code in any programming language. It debugs and compiles the code swiftly.

    Positive: - It supports almost all the programming languages and frameworks.
    - The extension store has some unique and useful extension to increase the productivity.
    - It has all the necessary features found in a code editor like code-completion, color coding, suggestions, and error detection.

    Negative: - In my use of four years I haven't found any con in the software, In fact, it has become better with time.

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  • Name: Faraz M.
    Job Title: Flutter Developer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 500 - 999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    The best IDE for development.

    Date: Jul 02 2021

    Summary: Overall, Visual Studio Code is a mighty IDE that is snappy to use, loads faster and does not consume a lot of system memory while running.

    Positive: - Visual Studio Code is highly customizable according to user's preferences.
    - It has light and dark mode support.
    - There are some extremely useful features like auto-completion, error-detection and highlighting.
    - It supports all the major programming languages.
    - It supports extensions that can be used to make the workflow faster and smoother.

    Negative: - There are numerous options that Visual Studio Code provides that can be overwhelming for the user initially.

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  • Name: Zuveriya H.
    Job Title: DevOps Engineer
    Length of product use: Free Trial
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 500 - 999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Smoothest IDE for developers.

    Date: Jun 23 2021

    Summary: Overall, Visual Studio Code is an easy-to-use IDE that comes with a beautiful UI, It has a vast amount of features and functionalities to make the coding fast.

    Positive: 1. Visual Studio Code provides the largest number of extensions to make the coding process easy and fun.
    2. With Visual Studio Code, a developer can code in multiple programming languages and frameworks on multiple projects.
    3. The has a lot of room for customization.

    Negative: I am using Visual Studio Code from a long time and didn't encounter any major issues. It fulfills all the needs of a developer.

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  • Name: Gage A.
    Job Title: Customer Care Coordinator
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
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    AMAZING CODING SOFTWARE

    Edited: Jun 18 2021

    Summary: I love this software and use it daily. I would highly recommend Visual Studio Code to anyone that is interest in learning code or codes already.

    Positive: This software is so so so simple to use. Upon install you have hundreds of languages to choose from. It helped me clean my code up and allowed me to learn new techniques with coding.

    Negative: I don't like how sometime when I run a program or HTML page it just doesn't work. I will have no syntax error or anything and it just doesn't run. This could be user error.

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