This article is a step by step guide on how to download & install Visual Studio Code, along with details about its different channels.

Download Visual Studio Code Insider. Learn how to sync settings, run public & insider versions together. Difference with Visual Studio IDE also discussed.

In 2015, Microsoft launched its answer to that question: Visual Studio Code. At heart, VS Code is a text editor, based on GitHub’s cross-platform Electron framework.

Of course, VS Code updates semi-automatically for most users who already have it and is easily available for download, as is the flagship Visual Studio IDE, bringing into question the advantages of a ...

The Visual Studio Code product itself ships under a standard Microsoft product license, as it has a small percentage of Microsoft-specific customizations. It’s free despite the commercial license.

Microsoft has made it incredibly easy to install Visual Studio Code for Java. A developer needs only to download Visual Studio's Java coding pack from Microsoft, and the installer takes care of the ...

The change came in Visual Studio Code 1.54 (now 1.54.1, thanks to a bug fix update), which is available as a universal 64-bit binary, as is standard for apps with Apple Silicon support.