Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined
Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Download Visual Studio Code - Mac, Linux, Windows
Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, macOS, and Windows. Download Visual Studio Code to experience a redefined code editor, optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.
Getting started with Visual Studio Code
In this tutorial, you learn about the key features of Visual Studio Code to help you get started with coding quickly. You learn about the different components of the user interface and how to customize it to your liking.
Why Visual Studio Code?
At its heart, Visual Studio Code features a lightning fast source code editor, perfect for day-to-day use. With support for hundreds of languages, VS Code helps you be instantly productive with syntax highlighting, bracket-matching, auto-indentation, box-selection, snippets, and more.
Documentation for Visual Studio Code
Find out how to set-up and get the most from Visual Studio Code. Optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Python in Visual Studio Code
Working with Python in Visual Studio Code, using the Microsoft Python extension, is simple, fun, and productive. The extension makes VS Code an excellent Python editor, and works on any operating system with a variety of Python interpreters.
C++ programming with Visual Studio Code
C/C++ support for Visual Studio Code is provided by a Microsoft C/C++ extension to enable cross-platform C and C++ development on Windows, Linux, and macOS. When you create a *.cpp file, the extension adds features such as syntax highlighting (colorization), smart completions and hovers (IntelliSense), and error checking.
Setting up Visual Studio Code
Getting up and running with Visual Studio Code is quick and easy. It is a small download so you can install in a matter of minutes and give VS Code a try.
October 2024 (version 1.95) - Visual Studio Code
Welcome to the October 2024 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include: Copilot Edits - Iterate quickly on large changes across multiple files; Copilot Chat in Secondary Side Bar - Keep Copilot Chat open and ready to-go while you work
GitHub Copilot overview - Visual Studio Code
You can use the Copilot extension in Visual Studio Code to generate code, learn from the code it generates, and even configure your editor. With GitHub Copilot in VS Code you can: Get inline code suggestions while you're writing and iterating on code.