Visual Studio Code
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Visual Studio Code running on Windows 7, with "Search" function activated
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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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| Initial release | April 29, 2015 |
| Preview release | 0.10.8 / 8 February 2016[1] |
| Development status | Public preview |
| Operating system | Windows 7 or later, OS X 10.8 or later, Linux |
| Platform | IA-32, x64 |
| Size | 45 MB |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Source code editor, debugger |
| License | MIT License[2][3] |
| Website | code |
Visual Studio Code is an open source source code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and OS X.[4] It includes support for debugging, embedded Git control, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, and code refactoring. It is also customizable, so users can change the editor's theme, keyboard shortcuts, and preferences.
Visual Studio Code is based on Electron, a framework which is used to deploy Node.js applications for the desktop running on Blink layout engine. Although it also uses the Electron framework, the software is not a fork of Atom, and is actually based on Visual Studio Online's editor (codename "Monaco").[5]
Contents
History
Visual Studio Code was announced, and a preview was released, on April 29, 2015 by Microsoft at the 2015 Build conference.[6]
On November 18, 2015, Visual Studio Code was released under the MIT License and its source code posted to GitHub. Extension support was also announced.[2]
Features
Visual Studio Code is a source code editor that provides a sporadic set of features that have limited scope, as shown in the following table. Many of Visual Studio Code features are not exposed through menus or the user interface. Rather, they are accessed via a .json file (e.g., user preferences) or via the command palette (e.g., installing an extension).[7] The command palette is a command-line interface. However, it disappears if the user clicks anywhere outside it or presses a key combination on the keyboard to interact with something outside it. This is true for time-taking commands as well. When this happens, the command in progress is canceled.
In the role of a source code editor, Visual Studio Code allows changing the code page in which the active document is saved, the character that identifies line break (a choice between CR and CRLF), and the programming language of the active document.
| Features | Languages |
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| Syntax highlighting | Batch, C++, Clojure, CoffeeScript, DockerFile, Elixir, F#, Go, Jade template language[8] (not to be confused with JADE),[9] Java, HandleBars, Ini, Lua, Makefile, Objective-C, Perl, PowerShell, Python, R, Razor, Ruby, Rust, SQL, Visual Basic, XML |
| Snippets | Groovy, Markdown, PHP, Swift |
| Intelligent code completion | CSS, HTML, JavaScript, JSON, Less, Sass |
| Refactoring | C#, [10]TypeScript |
| Debugging |
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Language support in Visual Studio Code can be expanded via plug-ins.[7]
References
- ^ "Release Notes". code.visualstudio.com. Microsoft. 7 February 2016.
- ^ a b "Visual Studio now supports debugging Linux apps; Code editor now open source". Ars Technica. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
- ^ "LICENSE.txt". github.com/Microsoft/vscode. Microsoft. 17 November 2015.
- ^ Lardinois, Frederic (April 29, 2015). "Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, A Free Cross-Platform Code Editor For OS X, Linux And Windows". TechCrunch.
- ^ "Microsoft’s new Code editor is built on Google’s Chromium". Ars Technica. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
- ^ Montgomery, John (April 29, 2015). "BUILD 2015 News: Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2015 RC, Team Foundation Server 2015 RC, Visual Studio 2013 Update 5".
- ^ a b c "Language Support in Visual Studio Code". Microsoft.
- ^ jade-lang
.com - ^ "standalone-languages/jade.ts". Microsoft/vscode GitHub repository. Microsoft. 13 November 2015.
- ^ Elixir (programming language)
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