Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. It provides code completion, debugging, integrated terminal and support for many programming languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, C++, C#, Python and PHP. The document discusses the key features of VS Code like speed, cross-platform support, debugging and IntelliSense code completion. It also provides instructions for downloading and using VS Code on different platforms through the command line.

1. Visual Studio Code
Firoz Mohamed.
Consutant at Neudesic.

2. Visual Studio Code
Fast, Lightweight, Cross Platform Editor.

3. Top 5 reasons
to choose
VsCode.

4. 1 Code is Fast

5. 2 Code is Cross-Platform

6. 3 Code has Debugging

7. 4 Code has Rich Intellisense

8. 5 Code has Rich Refactorings

9. Get up and running with VS Code

10. Downloading Code
http://code.visualstudio.com

11. > code .
Command line on Windows
Open code for the current folder by typing code .

12. code () { VSCODE_CWD="$PWD" open -n -b "com.microsoft.VSCode" --args $* ;}
Setting up Command line on Mac/OSX
Place in your ~/.bash_profile
Open Code for the current folder by typing code .
Commands are available at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup

13. $ code .
Command line on Mac/OSX
Open code for the current folder by typing code .

14. $ code .
$ code index.html -r
Command line on Mac/OSX
Open code for the current folder by typing code .
-r option opens file in the last active instance

15. $ code .
$ code index.html -r
$ code src/another/app -n
Command line on Mac/OSX
Open code for the current folder by typing code .
-r option opens file in the last active instance
-n option opens file in a new instance

16. Getting around VS Code

17. Getting around VS Code
Layout
Editing
Explorer
Saving
Searching
Command Palette
File Navigation

18. File and Folder Based
Files and Folders Project context
package.json
bower.json
tsconfig.json
jsconfig.json
project.json

19. User Interface of VS Code

21. Demo

22. Command Palette

23. Important Keyboard Shortcuts
Ctrl + Shift + P - Command Palette
Ctrl + P - File Navigation
Ctrl + B - Toggle Sidebar

24. VS Code is Agnostic
Code works with multiple languages
Not dependent on Node nor ASP.NET
We need code to show how to use it

25. Language Features

26. What you’ll need for Node

27. What you’ll need for Node
Mac/OSX or Windows Node and NPM Brew / Chocolatey

28. Getting Node.js
OSX
● Install Homebrew
○ https://brew.sh/
Windows
● Install Chocolatey
○ https://chocolatey.org/

29. Tips for Node on Windows
http://jpapa.me/winnode

30. Version Control and Git

31. Debugging

32. Debugging Keystrokes

33. Questions?

34. Thank You